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Excerpt from Social Problems: Outlines and References Speaking of the elective system in our secondary schools, a prominent teacher recently said: "In the matter of citizenship, there can be no liberty of choice. All young people must be trained to be good citizens and the school must prescribe the subjects. As most of our political problems rest upon a basis - ethical, economic, or sociological, all students should be required to study Ethics, Economics, and Sociology." Social Problems: Outlines and References offers to high school seniors a course which presents some of the ethical and sociological implications that underlie our civic and economic activities. The course aims to widen the student's societary outlook, to enlarge his reading horizon, to suggest standards by which social values may be measured, and to inspire him with a spirit of community idealism. 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.