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Education: how it may be aided by a daily newspaper
Originally published in the 1922 pamphlet titled “Education: how it may be aided by a daily newspaper”
“If thinkers arise and teachers bestir themselves our great democracy shall not yet fail.” —Dr. William E. Dodd, of the University of Chicago, in an address delivered December 14, 1922.
What man ought this child to be? Who is to lead this child to himself? What the means and where the road? These questions are before the house of the party in power—teachers, parents, the entire adult citizenship. They demand a place upon the calendar close to the top. They cannot be laid upon the table. They will not be filibustered—save by severest penalty to the community, the state. The child grows apace. Answers must be found.
It is passively known by the people of every civilized country and realized with deep concern by a certain thinking nucleus in each one, that the schools of to-day presage the world of to-morrow. As the teachers nurture the character of the child of the present, they determine the future stability of the whole human race. Surely no profession should be counted upon to keep a closer contact with the world's clearest thinkers and a keener ear to the ground of current events than that of teaching. The Christian Science Monitor is a wide and busy channel, with full and equal rights to every boat laden with constructive news and ideas from the greatest to the least of educational purport.
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