The German Conspiracy in American EducationGeorge H. Doran Company, 1919 - 105 pages |
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Alldeutscher Verband Amer Ameri American Alliance AMERICAN EDUCATION American universities Americanisation Anglo-American Anglo-Saxon army became Bennett Law Berlin British Carl Schurz Chicago cial city alliances civilisation club declared diplo Eduard Meyer English English language Europe exchange professorships expressed Fatherland Foreign Lands foreign language Friends of Peace ganisation German agent German cause GERMAN CONSPIRACY German departments German descent German element German instruction German Kultur German language German movement German propaganda German schools German University League Germanism in Foreign Germanistic Germany's guage HIGHER STRATEGY ical institutions instructors Jacob H Kaiser ment military moral movement in America National German National German-American Alliance native Nebraska organisation Pan-German Pan-German League parochial schools political population preservation president prestige pro-German professors public schools race racial School Alliance school board sities spirit STANFORD teachers teaching text-books things tion tional traditions United univer University of Berlin Wisconsin York youth
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Page 106 - He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
Page 107 - ... independent states, they had full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states might of right do; and for the support of that declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, did mutually pledge to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honour.
Page 84 - ... chivalrous sense of fair play which is the nearest thing to a religion that may be looked for at that age, hates meanness and favoritism, and will, wherever possible, expose them. There is in him a fundamental bent toward what is clean, manly, and aboveboard.
Page 36 - For the roots of the present lie deep in the past, and nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is.
Page 13 - The elbow to elbow fight no longer exists, and the soldier can no longer do his full duty if he simply possesses a sentiment of solidarity powerful enough to unite him to the other combatants, a sentiment that used to be reassuring in the hour of danger. Collective education given by society is the only means which will assure to the army the cohesion necessary to march to victory. The task must be assumed by the mass of the people— in the home, the school, the workshop. The spirit of duty and...
Page 106 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Page 75 - Choose!" American education is going vocationally mad, going bad; for behind this mischievous propaganda is a purpose and a philosophy not had of democracy. Let me quote a passage from a textbook by a native American high-school teacher: — In our country, where every youth in his first year in school learns that he may be president some day; where parents permit their children to look down upon their modest callings; where the higher professions are overcrowded, manual labor despised, the farms...
Page 84 - Kaiser spent three years of his boyhood, a diligent but not a brilliant pupil, ranking tenth among seventeen candidates for the university. Many tales are told of this period of his life, and one of them, at least, is illuminating. A professor, it is said, wishing to curry favor with his royal pupil, informed him overnight of the chapter in Greek that was to be made the subject of the next day's lesson. The young prince did what many boys would not have done. As soon as the classroom was opened on...
Page 38 - Call" just issued — will be to bring together the representatives from all the students of the world, in order that the spirit of international brotherhood and humanity may be fostered among them as a result of the deliberations of the congress, and in order that the students of the world may be united into an all-embracing world organization.
Page 84 - ... him overnight of the chapter in Greek that was to be made the subject of the next day's lesson. The young prince did what many boys would not have done. As soon as the classroom was opened on the following morning, he entered and wrote conspicuously on the blackboard the information that had been given him. One may say unhesitatingly that a boy capable of such an action has the root of a fine character in him, possesses that chivalrous sense of fair play which is the nearest thing to a religion...