Download or read book Hints on Teaching Civics (Classic Reprint) written by George Henry Martin and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hints on Teaching Civics It is the purpose of the author in preparing these "Hints" to enrich the content of the instruction in civics. The study of civil government is properly a department of ethics, and unless considered ethically, is essentially barren. The city boy soon enough and easily enough becomes acquainted with the facts of municipal administration, - what offices there are, what salaries they carry, and how they are filled. What he is not likely to learn, unless the school teaches it, is the moral aspect of all civil functions, the right and wrong of them. In all these matters false standards are so common, moral distinctions have become so confused by custom, that unless the truth is apprehended clearly before selfish interests blur the vision, unless right principles are early instilled, the young man is likely to come into his heritage of citizenship morally handicapped, and society is sure to suffer thereby. Those universal principles of fairness which underlie all righteous law appeal with peculiar force to boys, are indeed inwrought by them into all their organizations. There is a fascinating monograph in the Johns Hopkins Studies in Political Science, 2d Series, No. XI., entitled "Rudimentary Society among Boys." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.