What the Schools Teach and Might Teach - John Franklin Bobbitt

Whether the deficiencies here pointed out are serious or not depends in large
measure upon the character of the other social subjects, such as history and
geography. If these are developed in full and concrete ways, they illumine large
numbers of our difficult social problems. It is probable that the larger part of the
informational portions of civic training should be imparted through these other
social subjects. Whether very much of this is actually done at present is doubtful;
for the history teaching, as has already been noted, is much underdeveloped, and
while somewhat further advanced, geography work is still far from adequate at
the time this report is written.