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New Proportions in Political Instruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2013

Edgar Dawson
Edgar Dawson*
Affiliation:
Normal College, New York, N. Y.
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We have before us the college course in government for undergraduates, the great majority of whom are going into business or the learned professions, and will have no other opportunity to get, through systematic study, the right attitude toward the State. Our problem is a severely practical one. We are seeking results in the form of good citizenship; and good citizenship is mainly a matter of the heart rather than of the head. It is far more a matter of impulse than of knowledge. Given a body of honest, patriotic, sober citizens and the rest will take care of itself. Switzerland is said to have self-government, yet few of its citizens have had a course in college which deals with government.

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Proceedings of the American Political Science Association , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Tenth Annual Meeting , December 1914 , pp. 234 - 242
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1914

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