Influence On Education
Ligthart's philosophy was followed by many teachers in elementary schools in the Netherlands and the "Ot en Sien" books became a ubiquitous teaching tool for reading in elementary schools. This phenomenon lasted until deep in the 1950s and is one of the most remarkable developments in education in the country. Generations of children in the ever more urbanizing and suburbanizing society grew up with an idyllic and rather unrealistic view of what family life should be like and apparently was like in the country side of Drenthe. Ot went for pleasant walks dressed in a rather fashionable sailor outfit with his father dressed in a three piece suit and a hat. Few city kids ever experienced that and their parents certainly did not have a servant in the house. Neither did most kids in Drenthe but few in the cities knew about that.
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