The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-09
KIXDERGARTxN CULTURE.

KINDERGARTEN CULTURE.
The system Of kindergarten instruc.
ton in this country is growing IL Popu-
larity each succeeding season, just as
parents and guardians better understand
the method, and realize how superior are
the modes therein applied, to developing
the childish mind, as compared with the
Old stupid and drudgcry style of teaching,
still greatly in vogue. The culture otthe
wee ones by the kindergarten process
hereabouls is not general by any means,
bat it does not want half an eye to OBJ
serve that the leayen so carefully prepar-
ed by Mrs. Taylor we believe, couple
Of years sgo, st the Seminary, has 50 de-
monstratcd lie value tina. to-day there are
several OF these schools in the city. Yet
there still are some people who do not
thoroughly understand the mod1s oPeT-
audi Of child culture pursued on the Kin
dsrgarlen plan, and sensible talk on
the subject from an exchange will not 60
amiss.
For some hundreds Of years it was one
of the cardinal doctrines that child's
education was wholly out of books. Long
hair and = consumptive chest, got
through much porting over the printed
page. were as much the attributes of the
scholsr AS the midnight lamp, or 3 stain
OF ink On the fingers. Now and then
teacher caught family the idea that hu-
man nature was manifold, and needed 10
be- developed and trained IN all its caps-
l.lgas. before the man could be called
educated. Such teachers were not popu-
lar, ard none of them, up to the time OF
FRrDEmcK FEoEBEL, seems to have
thought on. any definite plan for begin
ming with a child in its infancy and de-
velopiuc it so that at maturity it would
have developed and healthy intellect
and body, an accurate conscience and
right ideas of justice and morality, as
well rs the best mechanical use OF It's
muscles.
90cA' IN word was I NoEHHLS lue"
of educating child, snd he spent his
worklng years in the task of reducing
TINS idea to Prac'ice' during as ne
time, IKE many other wise men, nc was
called crazy ana II mas not Oeeu un'''
his death th"t humanity Is beginning
slowly TO take IN the posSIoHl'F 'u"' euU-
cSt'on can be anything else Inan COM
hitting mass OF ruDOIsh 10 memory out
of books. Children, he thought, should
be educated TO the needs and duties Of
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play OF their own making, out play
which mimicked most nearly, realities.
,,be careIe.s resder there seems q
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IlhGo Oh D0'"''" '''0'"P ''09 ~ AIS
TEN, but whoever will follow his plan
r.,icr-'v and tbolrhtCully can not fail
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Iu.oYhy. l. IS q philosophy so contrary
.,.srr n,ror.o7rv received notions. that at
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hTsI one Is APP 10 P'o"o""co II num-
bug. The senses are impressed through
c.-f-,s. sryS FRoyBEL. All knowledge
-. =, c.o, Tho child =
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unit interior TO itse"' All the Wo'1o IS
exterior to it, and a. first q mass Of con-
,,...r from, which Il Is 10 eXtrscs,e tho
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single ooJ'c'S' anu n@No " NHo"i'useO VI
them lis own. This is the process Of
,.,.l,,ng, the cyterior world interior The
cli'I rnust he ,aurbt tbrourh games
,E,' rrnnerties of nst,er and the proper.
80, nr nrscricsI objects The next stem Is
:, rssr1 70 reproduce this EDowled,e: to
toiI what it knows. and TO make. in its
Crf,l fashion. the objects !, has learned
sh,u, This reproduction is making the
intrrlnr exterior again.
~gcb knowledge of practical objects is