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Originally Posted by klmmc13
Yes, religion class (for some, not all), manners & Etiquette that would make any parent proud and Hostess grateful. Also great Living History, if you think on it, teaching how people in the past behaved, and WHY it was that way.
As to Mein Kampf - one who "knows his enemy" can defeat him. There are others I don't agree with either.
I really hope you pick very wisely from those offerings, and add a lot of more up-to-date materials. - If you care to make some suggestions, I'll be more than happy to take a look at them. Thanks.
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Perhaps I wasn't clear about
Mein Kampf: I wasn't objecting against its presence on the reading list, but its classification as biography.
As for manners and ettiquette, here's a quote from the first book in the "Character & Etiquette" section:
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You have all read the story of the kind man, who found a viper lying upon the ground almost dead with cold. He took it up and placed it in his bosom to warm it, and to save its life. And what did that viper do? He killed his benefactor! Vile, vile reptile! Yes! as soon as he was warm and well, he stung the bosom of his kind preserver, and killed him.
But that child, is a worse viper, who, by his ingratitude, will sting the bosoms of his parents; who, by disobedience and unkindness, will destroy their peace, and thus dreadfully repay them for all their love and care. God will not forget the sins of such a child. His eye will follow you to see your sin, and his arm will reach you to punish. He has said, Honor your father and your mother. And the child who does not do this, must meet with the displeasure of God, and must be for ever shut out from heaven. Oh, how miserable must this wicked girl now be, locked up in the gloomy prison! But how much more miserable will she be when God calls her to account for all her sins!—when, in the presence of all the angels, the whole of her conduct is brought to light, and God says to her, "Depart from me, ye cursed!" As she goes away from the presence of the Lord, to the gloomy prisons of eternal despair, she will then feel a degree of remorse which I cannot describe to you. It is painful to think of it. Ah, wretched, wretched girl! Little are you aware of the woes you are preparing for yourself.
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If that isn't as black as pedagogy can get... But I'm afraid we're beginning to move into Politics & Religion territory.