Note 264 — Chapter IV · The Effect of the World War on Laws for Teaching History
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“In all public schools of this state it shall be the duty of each and every teacher to teach morality, for the purpose of elevating and refining the character of school children up to the highest plane of life; that they may know how to conduct themselves as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong and rectitude of life, ...” Statutes of Wisconsin, 1917, 40. 30 (5), p. 376.