The Character Diploma an Incentive to Moral Conduct and Good Citizenship in Public School Training (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Character Diploma an Incentive to Moral Conduct and Good Citizenship in Public School Training The belief is here advanced that there is no more serious defect in our national life than the inadequate moral training given to children. This defect, in large measure, the result of sweeping changes in our social and industrial life, is so fundamental in its nature and so far-reaching in its effects, that it can account for much of the wayward and vicious tendency of youth, the grosser criminality of adults, the disorder and violence of industrial groups, and the selfishness, dishonesty and corruption too often manifest in business and political life. The development of vast city populations with distinct tenement, commercial and factory zones, has operated to deprive parents of opportunity and capacity for the moral supervision of their children. So swift has been the course of these changes and so great are their effects that the Church and the Home upon which we once relied for the moral training of children, have become incompetent to discharge the task. Modern living conditions have underminded the power of these institutions as training agencies and weakened their efforts for good, as they daily are menaced by new and enlarged forces of evil. The function of the Church is to give the word of instruction. It lacks the means to convert its word into the deeds and habits of life and, because of this lack, it is inherently weak as a training force. Moral instruction to achieve its end must always be supplemented by the discipline of deed, and we have hitherto looked to the Home to supply this requirement. The Public School, whose chief purpose it has been to promote the intellectual development of its pupils, has fared better than its sister institutions in adapting itself to the changing order. It has grown in popular favor and become the recognized chief agency by which the youth of the nation are trained to meet their future obligations and tests. During the progress of the changes referred to there has been a seeming reluctance on the part of public school educators to undertake energetic measures along the lines of direct moral training. A backward glance at the origin of our school system affords some explanation of this attitude. In those earlier days the home life of children was more natural and better safe-guarded than at present. Children were in close contact with their parents, shared with them the industries of farm and shop and the duties of the home, and parents accepted, without question, entire responsibility for their moral up-bringing. The schools were called into being as adjuncts of the Home, for the distinct purpose of giving the elements of learning and developing the intellectual faculties. Thus the maintenance of good order and moral conditions in the schools was usually merely incidental to the scholarship activities, while responsibility for moral results still remained with the Home. 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.
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