A Child's History of the World

A Child's History of the World

This page is not for you, boys and girls. It is for that old man or womantwenty, thirty, or forty years old, who may peek into this book; and is what they would call the In common with all children of my age, I was brought up on American History and given no other history but American, year in and year out, year after year for eight or more years. So far as I knew 1492 was the beginning of the world. Any events or characters before that time, reference to which I encountered by any chance, were put down in my mind in the same category with fairy-tales. Christ and His times, of which I heard only in Sunday-school, were to me mere fiction without reality. They were not mentioned in any history that I knew and therefore, so I thought, must belong not to a realm in time and space, but to a spiritual realm. To give an American child only American History is as provincial as to teach a Texas child only Texas History. Patriotism is usually given as the reason for such history teaching. It only promotes a narrow-mindedness and an absurd conceit, based on utter ignorance of any other peoples and any other timesan intolerant egotism without foundation in fact. Since the World War it has become increasingly more and more important that American children should have a knowledge of other countries and other peoples in order that their attitude may be intelligent and unprejudiced. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67149
Author: Hillyer, V. M. (Virgil Mores)
Release Date: Jan 12, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publication Date: 1924
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Boog, Carle Michel, 1877-1968 , Jones, Mary Sherwood Wright, 1892-1995