the personality.[30]

National Socialist education must stress the heroic life and teach
German youth the importance of fulfilling their duty to the _Volk_.

Heroism is that force and that conviction which consecrates
its whole life to the service of an idea, a faith, a task,
or a duty even when it knows that the destruction of its own
life is certain ... German life, according to the laws of
its ideology, is heroic life ... All German life, every
person belonging to the community of Germans must bear
heroic character within himself. Heroic life fulfils itself
in the daily work of the miner, the farmer, the clerk, the
statesman, and the serving self-sacrifice of the mother.
Wherever a life is devoted with an all-embracing faith and
with its full powers to the service of some value, there is
true heroism ... Education to the heroic life is education
to the fulfilment of duty ... One must have experienced it
repeatedly that the inner fruition of a work in one's own
life has nothing to do with material or economic
considerations, that man keeps all of his faculties alive
through his obligation to his work and his devotion to his
duty, and that he uses them in the service of an idea
without any regard for practical considerations, before one
recognizes the difference between this world of heroic
self-sacrifice and the liberalistic world of barter. Because
the younger generation has been brought up in this heroic
spirit it is no longer understood by the representatives of
the former era who judge the values of life according to
material advantage ... German life is heroic life. Germany
is not a mere community of existence and of interests whose
only function is to insure the material and cultural needs
of its members, but it also represents an elemental
obligation on the part of the members. The eternal Germany
cannot be drawn in on the map; it does not consist of the
constitution or the laws of the state. This Germany is the
community of those who are solemnly bound together and who
experience and realize these eternal national values. This
Germany is our eternal mission, our most sacred law ... The
developing personality must be submerged in the living
reality of the people and the nation from earliest youth on,
must take an active