1. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY.--Every school should teach, and every child
should study, the principles of our government, in order:

1. That by knowing his country better he may learn to love it more.
The first duty of the school is to teach its pupils to love "God, home,
and native land."

2. That the child may learn that there is such a thing as just
authority; that obedience to it is right and manly; that we must learn
to govern by first learning to obey.

3. That he may know his rights as a citizen, and, "knowing, dare
maintain;" that he may also know his _duties_ as a citizen, and,
knowing, may perform them intelligently and honestly.

4. That he may understand the sacredness of the right of suffrage, and
aid in securing honest elections and honest discharge of official
duties.

5. That he may better understand the history of his country, for the
history of the United States is largely the history of our political
institutions.


2. ORAL INSTRUCTION.--There is no child in your school too young to
learn something of geography, of history, and of civil government.


These three subjects are so closely related that it is easier and