The teaching of “honor” is in danger of being hurt by religious instruction based on the Old and New Testaments, the Journal of the Nazi Teachers’ League reported here today, according to the Havas News Agency.
Describing the inculcation of honor as the chief aim of German education, the journal inquired:
“How can we teach our children loyalty and honesty while presenting them with models drawn from the religion of the roguish Jews, the swindler Jacob and the mercantile wheat-dealer Joseph? Will not these examples impregnate them with Jewish morality and the Jewish spirit?”
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