STAMP COLLECTING IS EDUCATIONAL TO CHILDREN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 40, 19 September 1949, Page 5

STAMP COLLECTING IS EDUCATIONAL TO CHILDREN

The craze for stamp collecting which usually possesses a child at some time in his young life, can, if taken seriously, be of great educational value. With the majority of children the hobby resolves itself into the desire to accumulate the greatest number of stamps possible. Yet this is the least aspect of its worth, Many parents fail to see in the hobby a great opportunity, to, firstly, help the child to become internationally minded and, secondly, to impress on his mind the features and aspects of other countries portrayed in each design. For the subject of the design of every stamp issue is of outstanding importance to its own country. Parents Too Stamp collecting has been advocated as an ideal pastime for parents in outer districts. If one of the parents can, to some extent, adopt the hobby at the same time as the child, he can, with a little study, collect much information associated with ,at least some of the designs. By these means he can open up to the child a fascinating of story of how people in other na 1 - tions are living, what they are growing on their farms, how they dress their children, and what trees and animals the children find in their forests.

Thus through the stamp the child gains glimpses of other countries which are of great international value and which frequently provide sidelights on history, geography and literature, that should stand him in good stead in his class or correspondence lessons.