Lessons For Junior Citizens Classic Reprint

Lessons for Junior Citizens (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lessons for Junior Citizens It is the aim of this book to create an interest in specific knowledge regarding the work of municipal governments, and to arouse a certain kind of heroworship for the men who are carrying out this work. Our policemen, our firemen, our inspectors of sanitary conditions, our builders of parks, our overseers of the poor, our school committees, and other officials and employees taken together are the guardians of our municipal life. These unpretentious lessons have grown out of my actual experience during my years of supervision in the Lowell State Normal Practice Schools. Believing that the majority of children are more interested in street scenes and actual life about them during the years that they attend the grammar schools than later when members of high schools and academies, where their interests are diversified, I have felt that a knowledge of the principles and duties of good government should be presented in the elementary schools. 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.

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Citizen 13660

Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html