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What Your Child Learns
Herskovits, Melville J. | September 17, 1924 issue

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It is the willingness of children to swallow without question any portion of knowledge received from their elders that makes the problem of elementary and secondary education so interesting. With the vast majority of the children of this country finishing their formal schooling by the age of fifteen, it is important to consider what sort of educational nourishment is poured into their intellectual stomachs. What is learned in the formative years is rarely unlearned; and it is a realization of this fact that impels the champions of all sorts of causes to try to put their ideas into the curriculum of both grammar and high schools. History, for example, has become a process of propaganda and myth-making.

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CHILDREN; EDUCATION, Secondary; EDUCATION; HIGH schools; HISTORY; MYTH
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