ABSTRACT
No intelligent foreigner can visit England for any length of time without realizing how strong and vital is the British tradition of freedom. Many school readers and geographies make little or nothing of the teaching of patriotism. In those in which the patriotic motive is prominent it is not always easy to draw a distinct line between the inculcation of a reasonable, desirable love of country and a narrow nationalism. If a narrow nationalism makes itself evident at times in a too great glorification of heroic exploits, in an over-emphasis of Britain’s part in the world, it appears also in places in a biased treatment of history. The influence of nationalism on the discussion of Anglo-French and Anglo-German relations in the past will be brought out later. If there is room in British education for nationalism and for national self-criticism, there is room also for the development of the ideal of international unity.
