Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1911 — Language Studies In Dutch Sehools. [ARTICLE]

Language Studies In Dutch Sehools.

“While the percentage of educated persona in Holland is not greater than in the United State? I am Inclined to think that more attention is given in the public schools of Holland to instruction in foreign languages than there 1* in this country,” said J. A Grutterink, an engineer of The Hague, here on a mission for his government “In our Dutch schools it is part of the course of Instruction to teach the three principal languages—French, German and English. / “When a pupil reaches the period of graduation he murft take an examination in these languages as well as in other studies. It therefore Is not strange that a person of fair education in Holland Is able to speak English at’least”