Teaching the Child Patriotism

The author offers a practical guide for parents and teachers on cultivating patriotic feeling in children through stories, historical examples, literature, and daily habits. Chapters discuss using history and heroic anecdotes to inspire, promoting a patriotism grounded in peace and democratic responsibility, fostering civic duty and personal accountability, and encouraging sacrifice, healthy citizenship, industriousness, moral manners, and spiritual ideals. Advice combines classroom and family activities, readings, and examples to make abstract concepts tangible, aiming to form informed, responsible, and service-minded young citizens rather than merely evoking emotional fervor.