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For well over 60 years, the preadolescent readers of Highlights for Children magazine have gotten regular lessons in morality from Goofus and Gallant, a pair of kids of indeterminate age and relation ...

In the age of popular culture, each generation tends to have popular archetypical characters who provide guidance and moral authority to those in their formative years. For those who grew up in the ...

Remember the classic kid’s cartoon ‘Goofus and Gallant’ in Highlights for Children magazine? While ‘Gallant’ models well-mannered elegance, ‘Goofus’ engenders sympathy for rambunctious and emotional ...