《小朋友》期刊的“国耻”教育是民国时期儿童“国耻”教育的典型代表，其开辟出系统的、革命的儿童教育救国舆论阵地，对20世纪上半叶的中国儿童教育产生了重要的影响。1922年创刊至新中国成立初期的《小朋友》“国耻”教育大致经过三个阶段的演变。20世纪20年代，《小朋友》反帝反封建的“国耻”教育雏形出现，但尚未形成体系。进入30年代，国家危难的形势和教育界的支持促使《小朋友》开设“国耻”纪念专栏、构建“反日”话语，“国耻”教育大致进入成熟阶段。1945年抗日战争胜利后，鉴于国内形势和国民党的行径，《小朋友》对国共两党的态度发生了转变，至新中国成立后，《小朋友》又熟练运用阶级分析的方法，提升中国共产党的政治认同、增强儿童的民族自信心。民国时期《小朋友》的“国耻”教育，为其他儿童刊物的“国耻”教育提供了借鉴，并有效补充了小学教科书中的相关内容。然而《小朋友》的“国耻”教育对儿童进行的意识形态的灌输，反映出一定的消极性。

The national-humiliation education in The Little Friend is a typical representative of children’s education in the Republic of China period. The systematic and revolutionary platform of education it opened up had a significant influence on the children’s education in the first half of the 20th century. From the establishment of the journal to the birth of New China, the education of national-humiliation roughly went through three stages. In the 1920s, the national-humiliation education appeared in embryonic form in periodicals, but it had not yet formed a system of its own. In the 1930s, the national crisis and the education sector prompted the periodicals to open columns of national-humiliation and construct the anti-Japanese discourse, building the maturity of the national-humiliation education. At 1945, the attitude of periodicals towards the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had changed, until the beginning of the founding of New China, periodicals made skillful use of class analyses to promote the political identity of the Communist Party and build children’s national self-confidence. The national-humiliation education it built not only became a model for other children’s publications to carry out national-humiliation education, but has also effectively supplemented the content of national-humiliation education in primary school textbooks. However, there is a certain negativity in the ideological indoctrination of children through the national-humiliation education of The Little Friend.