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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Oct 1926, p. 21

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October 15, 1926 WILME.TTE LIFE SAYS FOREIGNERS CAN TEACH AMERICANS MUCH -. - general understanding and love of music and art to be found among the foreigners, pointjng out that where the average American thinks that one trip to the art institute will do for a lifeMost of Them Have a Better time, the foreigner may be found in Ground Training Than Ameri- the galleries any Saturday or Sunday, with his entire family, enjoying the cans, Says Evanston Expert pictures. · Another phase of foreign training "\Vhat I Have Learned in Evening which appeals very decidedly to Miss School" was the subject of a lecture given by Miss Emma G. White ·before hite is their training in good manthe students of the National Kinder- ners. "I have learned that the foreignt d El t er has g-ood manners ." said she. "Of gar en an ' emen ary . co11 ege. · 1 a~t course I know tha't morals are more Thursday afternoon. Mtss Whtte IS · 1 tl1 f d f th · f ltmportant t 1an manners, but m . anners ~ oun .er o e evenmg sc1 10?1 or arc very important nevertheless. I altens .whtch has been conducted 111 ~he think they are the keY to success. AlvVashmgton school, Evanston, duru~g most always the man· who is successth~ past fifteen years. She ~poke agam ful in life ha s good manners. He t~1s Thursda~r on the .subJ.ect. of the does n t need to hav e the 'frills' hut 111ght schoo.l and Amencantzatto_n. her he mu st ha\·e good plain kindly lectur~s l~em~ pa~t of. the senes on thou rr htful manners. Foreign' manner; At~encan1zat10n gtven 111 the college are ~ore punctillious than ours, more tills ?emes~er by men and women of . ccremonious- possihh· too ceremonious n?te 111 vanous fields. !he lecture s are - but they are a relief from those we gtYen at 2 oclock on fhursdav after" . . d . mee t 1 1ere. noons, anfI anyone w I10 ts mterestc m . . . . the . uhject ,viii he cordially \Ydcom cd, In IH'r a~~oCtatton \\' tt~l these. people it is said. through many years Mtss Whtte has · h t d found that thev have a great deal of I n summmg up w a s1 1e 1 1as 1earne · f 1 1 ·1· · d · ht h 1 M· Wh't 'd practtca 1 a )I tty an many o t 1em are f rom mg sc oo , ISS 1 e sat f · 1 · 1 · 1 · th a t one o f h er fi r s t Iessons was tl 1e success u 1 m t 1etrk' )USmess or1 . t 1etr d . f h !'ttl h k "If work, not only ma mg mone,· )ttt or Itsrovery o ow 1 e s e new. · h k 11 d dd' · h · I 1 ld k mg t e wor · we an a mg to t e T am t o t eac h 300 a 1 tens s 1ou now · b · · · · h orne, th e1r · wealth \' domg tt. some tlung a b ou t th e1r · of the natton . ~ country, family life, customs, manners, Learna Americanization etc. And what do I know about them? ~~iss \\"hite scored the American Next to nothing, and most of the little homes for its laxity in teaching obedif do know I have learned from them ." cnce to law ·and order, hut admitted In contrast to her own lack of knowl- that \\'hen the foreigner comes to edge Miss White said that she has America he is apt to fall into the same been astonished to find how much her error, so that it takes a second generapupils know, not only of the practical tion to bring them back to normal. or mechanical things of their work, "One of the greatest things I ha\·e but of scholastic studies of "·hich learned from night school, however." many Americans are igorant. She cited said Mis s \\'hite. "is the Amcricanizathe instance of a Ukranian boy who, tion which T see among the people and without effort, translated a Christmas which I think gro\\'s from contact with greeting in Greek into English, and us. Man\· times when I hear them tell said that many of the Foreigners know of the c~ntrast betw ee n this countn· Greek, a great many of them know and their former home I feel that A-Latin, and most of them are thoroughly mericanization is one of the biggest familiar with the beginnings of educa- things I learn from my contact with tion. "Their grounding is so good in evening classes." many cases that all we have to do is -------A]. Kuclz o\\·, oll Greenleaf a\·cnuc, to translate what they know into Enghas returned home after vacationing lish." Miss White commented also on the at \Vhite Sulphur Springs, \V. Va. Be Sure to Plan Your Winter Trip to CALIFORNIA via the w Pioneer . . 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