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 ETHICAL INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOL AND CHURCH 447

of carefully arranged talks, with copious illustrations from history and litera- ture, about such topics as fair play, slang, cronies, dress, teasing, getting mad, prompting in class, white lies, affectation, cleanliness, order, honor, taste, self-respect, treatment of animals, reading, vacation pursuits, etc., can be brought quite within the range of boy and girl interest.

And Dr. Charles De Garmo, in annual report of the Ameri- can Academy of Political and Social Science, 1892, discussing " Ethical Training in the Public Schools," said :

We must impart to the child those ethical ideals that form the content of the highest morality. Besides ethical content in dramatic literature we have in the bustling daily life about us a perpetual illustration of ethical and unethical principles reduced to concrete practice. The thoughtful teacher needs to induce the pupils to look about them.

It is the effort of this article to provide an effective method of accomplishing what many great educators have recognized as desirable. If visual instruction in ethics is successful and finally incorporated in our public schools, the children, their parents, and the nation are gainers to no slight degree. The importance of the matter to those whom the public schools and the churches are designed to serve will justify investigation and experiment on the part of superintendents and pastors. Corre- spondence and cooperation in practical experiments with this method are invited. Reprints of this article will be offered as a bulletin of the Educational Church Board, 29 South Pine avenue, Albany, N. Y. E. M. Fairchild,

Lecturer for E. C. B.

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