Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...important educational problem, this question cannot fail to interest us. Is it a pleasant outlook when pretty falsehoods--just because they are pretty--must be fed to minds not yet trained to sift out truth? The impressions received in childhood are difficult to eradicate; truth, when it does force its way through a barrier of early prejudice brings with it all the attendant dangers of disillusionment. Furthermore, an enduring faith in one's country is founded not on ignorance of its shortcomings but on an appreciation of the counterbalancing merits. The sconer this is recognized in our elementary history classes...