Download or read book Ned and Nan in Holland (Classic Reprint) written by Emma Gertrude Olmstead and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ned and Nan in Holland There is a growing feeling among those interested in civic education that more might be done through the schools to help our people to understand those who come from foreign lands, as well as to help them understand us and our ways. The night schools, the classes for teaching English to foreigners, and social center work of various kinds are all parts of this great melting pot movement. Some cities are making a part of the Fourth of July celebration a Welcome to Citizenship ceremony. How can the public schools assist in this work? We must remember that training for American citizenship Should never mean the giving up of anything that is good in the ideals of the foreign land. Rather, let us help to preserve these ideals and use them whenever we can. If our people are to receive those from other lands in the right spirit, our children should have correct information concerning those that knock at our gates, whether they be Dutch, Irish, German, English, French, Italian, Russian, or of any other nationality. We must learn of the food, shelter, and clothing of these peoples; how they keep their holidays; how they make their living; of their music, their art, their folk dances. Then, only, will our people realize that sympathetic understanding, essential to a right attitude in ourselves if we are to welcome those who come to join us. The purpose of this book, then, is to furnish attractive, authentic material for supplementary reading, of a kind, that not only increases the reading vocabulary, supplies desirable information, and developes imagination, but gives to our children this sympathetic understanding for peoples different from ourown. The authors have aimed to make this material child-like in expression, to use good, Simple English, and to avoid stressing the Spectacular or giving a distorted view. Among the first special days in the school year, comes Thanks giving Day. Holland is sure to find a place in this celebration in connection with the Pilgrims. A real desire to know more of the Dutch people can be satisfied by giving the child his own book to read, rather than requiring him to be a passive listener to facts about Holland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.