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Excerpt from Patriots in the Making: What America Can Learn From France and Germany
On the other hand it must be admitted that there has been a tendency, both in the French and German schools, to magnify nationalism and to develop an tagonism toward other countries. True, the influ ence of this has been partly offset, in France at least, by certain humanitarian teachings which found their way into the schools during the last quarter-century; but the tendency to an intensification of the princi ple of nationality remained predominant. Our own schools have not been free from instruction of this sort; but it behooves us in future to avoid such teachings. To draw the line between an education that makes for proper patriotism and one that makes for narrow nationalism may not be easy, but it can be done if careful attention is given to the problem. True Americanism should pave the way through edu cation to that mutual understanding among the na tions which alone can form the basis of permanent peace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
