A volume of addresses and essays which aim to give “our teachers the viewpoint of social and political betterment as their chief aim in teaching.” The essays, which are all upon the nature of public life and public duty and the best methods of training children to become useful citizens, are entitled: Training for citizenship, The social basis of education, The making of citizens, Relation of the public schools to business, Education for commerce: the far East, Free speech in American universities, Critique of educational values, Policy of the state toward education, and Schoolbook legislation.
“The book is somewhat marred by repetition ... but the ideas it presents are so vital, and yet so generally neglected, that they deserve repetition in many volumes such as the one Prof. Jenks has given us.” R. C. B.
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“Sane and readable essays.”
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“The subjects treated are peculiarly adapted to the present period and would seem to embrace a wider field than that inferred in the title.”
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“The book is so good and has in it so much that is intelligent and helpful as to the exceedingly important subject of which it treats, that it seems a pity that it has not been more thoroughly worked out and presented in a more orderly and symmetrical manner.” Edward Cary.
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