ABSTRACT
Free education has long been acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest blessings. And such it surely is. Yet for all that, it must be clear from what has been said, it operates as one of the most persistent menaces to the peace of the world. Of the three types of nationalism in education examined—French, German and English—the English is clearly the least invidious. As between the nationalistic education of France and that of Germany, it is hard to say which is more inimical to international good will. French nationalism seems to be the more vehement and vituperative. The material set forth in the Enquete of the Dotation Carnegie, though the collaborators themselves do not draw any such conclusion, gives evidence of greater vituperation of the Germans in the French textbooks than it does of the French in German textbooks. Germany saw the light for a brief moment after the Revolution.
