Excerpt from Teaching Democracy in the North Carolina Public Schools If the North Carolina public schools are to do their share in defending and improving American Democracy, we must continue with unabated zeal our program of curriculum construction. Democracy more than any other form of government demands a school curriculum that effectively meets the needs of the individual and the society in which he lives. The most. Effective curriculum emerges from locally recognized needs. In this critical period I trust that every teacher and administrator will be especially alert to the problems peculiar to their specific localities. In planning the next steps in our educational program for the defense and improvement of democracy let us continue with renewed vigor our efforts to secure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.