THE MONMOUTH HERALD, MONMOUTH, OREGON FRIDAY. JU LY 20, 1923
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The Herald
in keeping with the new point of view.
In 1919 a speaker before the National
Education Association made a plea
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for
history to be interpreted broadly
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“including the life of the man in so
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ciety—his industry, religion, science,
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literature, and art as well as his wars
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and politics.”
TJie average American history text
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book is largely a record of wars and
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rumors of wars. Is it any wonder
that the youth comes to think of pa
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triotism as something concerned with
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donning a soldier’s garb and fighting
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for the defense of his country? From
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has had several wars, but in compar
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,at war with the periods of peace we
recognize that the part of our history
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devoted to war is all out of propor
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The ordinary history of u country
There has been a narrow view tak
has been written with a view to arous en
regarding the importance of
ing patriotism, and making those who events, to say nothing of the half
study that history feel that their truths concerning the matters that
country was always in the right. are discussed. Our American pupils
This is not so much because facts have have been going through school with
been garbled as it has been a case of out learning very much about the
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telling
half truths, telling just country’s past, and much that they
auto tru ck and by
enough about anything to make one’s have learned has not been true be
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country appear noble and grand in cause they have not learned enough
comparison with others.
city or out of tow n.
to get at the truth of the matter.
Sectional differences have been em
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There needs to be a decided if not a
phasized improperly in American radical change in this valuable and
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history. After the Civil War the important subject. The youth has a
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schools came into prominence, and the country and the whole truth.
The
histories commonly written and stud things that are not to the credit of the
ied in the North presented the strug- nation should not be hidden from him
between the North and the South, in We can learn by the mistakes of others
cluding the causes that led up to the as well as by their perfect accomplish
open conflict, in such a way that the ments.
school child of the elementary grades
Text books that confine the subject
readily came to the conclusion that to narrow limits, that take a sectiona.
there was not the slightest grounds view based on prejudice concerning
for the stand taken by the South. the internal affairs, that aim at teach
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Naturally the southern states could ing the gloriousness of America at the
not feel justified in adopting such expense of other countries: text books
h.stories, and so for decades the pupils of that type should not be permitted
of the North and the pupils of the to have a place in our schools.
South have gone on studying the his
There is a need for the modification
tory of their country written to best of the curriculum which 1 shall not
satisfy the vanity of the section in take up, but I would emphatically
which they lived. Is it any wonder plead that the bonds that have kept
that the North celebrates one date as history study within narrow confines
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Decoration day while the South has be broken. Give us historical free
selected a different time for remem dom. Let the truth be known, “the
bering their soldiers of the sixties? whole truth and nothing but the
Is it any wonder that nine southern truth”. Let the pupils of today have
states observe the birthday of Rob a true insight into the past and the
ert E. Lee as a holiday and eight of sectional prejudice and difference will
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the southern states celebrate the be lessened within the nation while it
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birthday of Jefferson Davis at which will be less difficult to get an interna
time Confederate flags have a prom tional viewpoint and to learn to think
inent part in school ceremonials? In in international terms. Whatever we
stead of healing the wounds of sec put into our schools we do get into the
tional controversy the histories stud fibre of the nation whether we will it
ied in our schools have served to keep i so or not. For the future welfare ol
the wounds open.
the nation and in the interest of
Some decades ago the Prussians 1 world peace in the days to come may
adopted a maxim which was, “What we have academic freedom in prepa
ever you want in the nation put it ration of history text books and free
into the school”. It was the Prus dom in the teaching of this vital sub
sian plan to make all German child ject.
ren feel that their nation was the
greatest in the world—the salt of the
earth, and so the history text books
were written with that end in view.
How successful was the plan was
demonstrated in the war that became
world wide in its significance and led
to the smashing of the old Prussian
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regime in 1918.
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