Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that the schools the world over should be giving rather than that of military prearedness. This work today is too largely of the form of adult resistance to the enemy of vice that has been systematically bred and nourished in our own homeland. A people will far more quickly recover from the devastation of war than from the devastation of vice. The home and the school should be the point of attack while the present righteous population stands guard. mt if It. j t A i The true idea of govern- The Method of Approach . . ., , ,. in the Teachina of ment 1S that f c-Peratlon Civics fr mutual benefits Chi1- dren early appreciate what is done for them and learn to enjoy doing things for others. It is in these experiences that the teaching of civics has its beginnings. In other words, it is through the functions of the government and not through the machinery of government that the child learns how to behave, how to obey, serve and respect the individuals and institutions of society. The interests aroused in the small group—the home, school, church and community—widen out gradually into the interests of the larger group— the city, state, and nation. This method of approach naturally gives civics a place by the side of other subjects from the first grade on through the entire course of school work. The formal study of text-books on the machinery of government has not appealed to the interests of children and has not resulted in the awakening of a social consciousness. Children love action and are interested in its results This is the key to success in civics instruction. Every local unit in group life is the proper text book for thiswork. Such units are (1) the fire department for protection, (2) the police for safety of property and life, (3) the hospitals for the ...