Excerpt from City Government for Young People: A Study of the American City, Adapted for School Use and for Home, Reading for Children This work is not intended as an addition to the already overburdened curriculum of the High School, but is offered to educators as a substitute, in schools located in cities, for the course on "Civics" or "Civil Government." The avowed purpose of that course is to teach citizenship. It will scarcely be contended that the recital of facts about the general government and the state and county governments can be of great value in itself. These, like many other things taught in our schools, are likely to be quite forgotten before the pupil reaches the age where they can be put to practical use. Moreover, the essential facts about the national government and the states are fairly well covered in the study of American History. But the lessons of citizenship are of great and lasting value. The National Municipal League and many writers on municipal topics have repeatedly urged that a study of city government rather than that of the national and state governments be used as the basis of the teaching in citizenship. 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.