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STOOPS, J. DASHIELL. The Inner Life as a Suppressed Ideal of Conduct
Tufts, JAMES H. War-Time Gains for the American Family....
TURNER, J. E. The Genesis and Freedom of Will and Action.
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LASKI, HAROLD. Authority in the Modern State, by Charles E. Merriam
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JOURNAL OF ETHICS

OCTOBER, 1919

SOME NEW PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP.1

DAVID SNEDDEN

THE making of good citizens in the broadest sense, that is, of adults who will contribute to the harmony and co-operation needed within the social group, out of plastic childhood with its individualistic and "small group" instincts, has been a task to which societies appear to have addressed themselves since the beginnings of organized human life on earth. Education for citizenship is simply one phase of the complex process of social control. Preparation for citizenship has generally taken place in ways unperceived by the learner, and doubtless often, too, in ways only partially understood by the teacher—as parent, elder, chief, master worker, priest or lawgiver; for it is certain that the customs, dogmas, traditions, institutions and ideals evolved to perpetuate social control have a potency at any given time far beyond that which can be perceived and comprehended by any individual.

But the old ways of fitting for citizenship are not sufficient for the modern world. The citizen of a twentieth century democracy has responsibilities that are both greater and different from those borne by his forefathers. It seems very probable, indeed, that the spread of aspirations for democracy, accompanied by general social demands for,

1An address given before the Columbia Institute of Arts and Sciences, January 28, 1919.

Vol. XXX.-No. 1

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