“ It is time that the American children should be nurtured in the public schools on something else than the mythology of the Germans. Our educational experts proceed from the theory that American children are all little Teutons, that at the age of eight or ten years they are at the same stage of development as were the grown-up savage Teutons two thousand years ago and that they should learn to look with veneration upon Wotan and the other war deities of the German mythology. ”