The herald., 1896-01-05

| tween the ages of 3 and 6, and there would
! be such a change in American life in our
generation as to surprise the most sang,l-
Inc. Three years of that training would
nave more to do in raising the intelligence
and morality of our people than any other
influence which could be set to work"
Alice Wellington Rollins. in Distaff series:
"lhe kindergarten child is not sent to
school: He goes of his own accord. He
never forgets, because he is never told any
thing which he has not first wanted to
KNOW lie does not answer questions. He
asks them. The ordinary boy crosses a
held to get somewhere. The child of the
KTndergarten Tl sees things in his own way.
Inc ordinary child remembers to be good
The kindergarten child forgets to be
naughty"
Professor Hailmann, known the world
over as an expert in the kindergarten
methods and as one of the chief authori-
ties in the new education,'' has only
words of the highest appreciation for those
''chlld-savlng Schools" as has President
Stanley Hall of the Worcester, Mass,
Polytechnic and Earl Barnes, professor at
Stanford, who is making most interesting
studies of the child nature. President
keyes, also, of Throop Polytechnic, and
indeed all the eminent educators of our
land and of all lands bear the like testi.
mony.
Prof. Sweet, ,eX-superintendent San Fran
cisco public schools, says: II have many
children in my schools from the narrow
streets south of Market street. Before the
days of the free kndergartens those child
rem as soon as they could crawl, spent tn cir
hours on the sidewalks; at six years they
come to us with n fund of information of
the worst description, and vocabulary
that might excite the envy of 'Barbary
Coast The free kindergartens have
a hat Nhnxr
babies from the curbstone, trained and
guided them along the path of right
development. They have attempted
no cramming of their infant brains,
with, premature scholarship, but have
taught them a pure language, and led
their little feet into new civilization. The
children still come from the same places,
but L hear no more the wild phrases of
Barbary coast, nor vile oaths. The little
ones are clean, self-respecting, and eager
for knowledge"
Kate Douglass Wiggin: SIT is atmos.
phere, not dogma, that educates. The
kindergarten surrounds the child with an
atmosphere of culture, intelligence and
good will to men, Said the boy Heine of the
old French drummer in his fathers house.
hold: when he talked about liberty,
did not understand him; but when he
played the Marseillaise on his drum, then
understood The kindergarten plays the
Marseillaise on the finely responsive chords
OF the young soul, which will never vibrate
to any other influence so effectively. The
kindergarten endeavors to be a life sch ooI,
where all the practices of complete living
are made matter of daily habit. 1t as
serts boldly that doing right would
practiced it a little, and it intends to give
children plenty of opportunity for practice.
"Ihe whole boy goes to school; but the
whole boy is seldom educated after he gets
there. A fraction of him is attended to in
the evening, however, and fraction on
Sunday. He takes himself in hand on Sat
urday and in vacation time, and accom-
plishes good deal, Notwithstanding the
fact that his sight is trifle impaired al
ready,an his hearing grown little dull so
that Dame Nature works at disadvan-
tage, and begins. doubtless, to dread boys
who have enjoyed too much schooling since
it seems to leave them in state of coma !"
''If we look at the downright ethical signifi-
cance of The methods of training and dis
ciplne in many families and schools we
see that they are positively degrading. We
appoint more and more monitors in
stead of training the inward monitor in
each child. We make truth telling difficult
instead of easy; we punish trivial and
grave offenses about in the same way; we
practice open bribery by promising chill
dren few cents day to behave them
selves, and weaken their sense of right by
giving them picture cards for telling the
truth and credits for doing the most obvi-
GUS duty. This has been carried on until