Suchergebnisse

In the development of a child, pol'al sentiment precedes factual knowledge. The Sch is neither the source of the child's group att's nor an effective counterweight to them. The pol'al conflicts of the past & those of the present in which his own group is strongly involved have enormous influence on the mind of the child. His sense of these conflicts comes to the child from his own home & from the mass media rather than from the Sch. It is from this sense that group loyalty is developed & this loyalty is responsible for irrational soc animosities. Friction & conflict of interest will always exist between groups as they will always exist between individuals. The young should be taught that pol'al animosity exists in all of us & is a natural result of history, but that it is one thing to harbor intense feelings of hatred & quite another to translate that feeling into anti-social acts. J. A. Fishman.