PRINCIPAL OF THE NORTH SCHOOL, HARTFORD, CONN.; AUTHOR OF "A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR SCHOOLS"; AND CO-AUTHOR OF "A PATHFINDER IN AMERICAN HISTORY" In teaching history to boys and girls from ten to twelve years old simple material should be used. Children of that age like action. They crave the dramatic, the picturesque, the concrete, the personal. When they read about Daniel Boone or Abraham Lincoln they do far more than admire their hero. By a mysterious, sympathetic process they so identify themselves with him as to feel that what they see in him is possible for them. Herein is suggested the ethical value of history. But such ethical stimulus, be it noted, can come only in so far…
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