Excerpt from Professional Normal Institutes: Topics for Lectures and Discussions With Syllabi and References Educational means by which good citizenship may be promoted. The responsibility for service. Duties to the state. Civic virtues: obedience, justice, kindness, generosity, honesty, liberty, peace, political honor. What is a community? How the citizens of a community govern themselves. Relations between people and the land. The' care of the community for the health of the people. Protection of life and property. Transportation and communication. How the community cares for dependents and defectives. Provisions for beautiful surroundings. The plan and procedure of local, state, and national government. American ideals. The United States and the world. The conduct of the recitation. Tests of successful teaching of civics. 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.