EDUCATION AND PATRIOTISM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1946, 1 March 1919, Page 2

EDUCATION AND PATRIOTISM.

A( Tuesday night’s public meeting Mr ITornhlow read the statement of Dir I’. F. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, rc education and the war, as compared with (he statements made by the Chairman of (he Wanganui Education Board. Dir Claxton is reported to have said, inter alia :

‘■Last of nil, we cannot as a people* afford to put ourselves in flu* a(lilude of regarding as evil everything' about any people with whom we may happen lo he al war. We cannot afford (o assume (his altilude (oward the German people simply because (hey happen now to he under (he control of an autocratic militarisin' government with purposes and aims that have, bronchi us into conflict with it. The fewer hatred and aulagosisms thal get themselves embodied in institutions and policies, tiie better it will he for us when the days of peace return. We can easily see how this Ims been true of our times of war with England, Mexico, and Spain, and among ourselves. “1 sincerely hope that school officers and teachers everywhere will take the broad and sane view of the subject. To do so can, 1 believe, in no way be interpreted as a lack of loyalty lo the. United Slates, nor can failure to do so in any way strengthen our position in the war or enable us lo bring it to a .successful end more quickly."’