Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ohio History Teachers' Journal, 1919-1923: Bulletins 12-30 This represents what a despotic ruling class, seeking a contented proletariat on one hand and domination of world trade on the other, devised for its future citizens. A ruling class needs a citizenship which knows the laws of health. It needs skilled workman, and it should above all, surround its workers with decent local conditions. All of these things the German ruling class has provided. But knowledge of large national affairs, skill in the use of political methods for the attainment of economic ends are not given to the working class, for once it has secured these weapons, the days of a ruling class are numbered. To teach community civics in the junior high school is to teach the working people of the country a political philosophy which takes from them the political skill necessary to the control of their own government and gives them in return the ability merely to keep their immediate community in good order. The German ruling class care fully planned and executed such a system with the result that a well-fed but politically incompetent ruling class stood for a long time with its back to the Rhine defending a political system which menaced the whole future of democracy. It may be truthfully said that the German government knew the value of community civics long be fore our own community educators began their work. 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.