Education: Schoolroom Patriotism

Another State Bill Makes New York Look Conspicuously Silly The Boston Transcript publishes under the title " Silly Cooperationists " an editorial attack upon a certain " Commission of Intellectual Cooperation" apparently functioning abroad, which proposes to eliminate from school histories the praise of " narrow national activities" and substitute a history dealing objectively with international affairs. This view, says the Transcript, " assumes that education is the same thing as propaganda, which it is not." Whereupon the Transcript proceeds to show that it is. " The child is educated," if...

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