Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE MORAL EDUCATION PROBLEM. The question of the moral and civic education of the children of the nation is one which is receiving a large measure of attention at the present time. Not only is this the case in our own country, but other countries seem to be faced with problems similar in kind to those which exist in our own. Evidence of this is furnished by the discussions which took place at the Congress on " Moral Education "—discussions which were taken part in by representatives from all the leading nations of Europe as well as by delegates from America and Japan. Now this question of moral education, as Professor Sadler1 has pointed out, is the heart of the modern educational problem, for it is being increasingly felt by all serious thinkers, that the educational system of a country, however successful it may be in realizing the intellectual and economic ends of education, by means of its schools, yet if it fails to turn out youth with high moral and civic ideals, then it has failed to produce any lasting or certain result. For the continued well-being and existence of any and everymodern State depends, in the first place, upon the securing of the physical and economic efficiency of its future individual members, and in the second place, and above all, upon the securing of the social and moral efficiency of its future citizens. It is because, then, of its present day importance that I propose to discuss certain aspects of the moral education problem. In the first place, we may ask what are the causes which have been and are operative in bringing this problem to the forefront at the present time ; (2) admitting that something more systematic is necessary in the way of moral instruction in our schools, what are the methods proposed ? and (3) what are the particular d...