From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, July 12, 1915: Civic Education in Elementary Schools as Illustrated in Indianapolis, a bulletin just issued by the United States Bureau of Education, describes how Indianapolis trains its children for the responsibilities of citizenship. “Indianapolis public schools help the pupil to understand the nature of his own community life, his dependency upon it, and his responsibility for it; to develop a right attitude toward government as the means by which all community members may cooperate for the common interest, and to cultivate habits of right action as a community member,” writes Arthur W. Dunn, special agent in civic education. Civic education is a phase of all the work of the school. Pupil participation in school management is a very real thing that naturally leads to participation in the larger civic life of the community.