Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-04-25
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 portion of such food were considered well educated. Development was not considered an element of education.
 It was after many years experience
 as a teacher that FrOebel saw how
 necessary it was to begin a child's | education as soon as it was born
 in order to secure that harmonious development of it's being, that would
 ultimately give him the place in the social world for which his faculties destined him.
 1.-The child comes into the world with numberless inherited tendencies.
 As soon as he has passed the sleep
 ing and feeding period, these tend encies begin to assert themselves. It is then that the mother should be
 gin the K. G. training of the little one
 The K. G. period of the child's life covers the years from to 6. but the K. G. training is a system of de- velOpment intended to be carried through the developing period of the ehild's life. The surroundings of a child. long before he is conscious of anything are shedding their silent in
 AhNhNtN hlfOli HILL ClEe Sll0DlI be taken that these influences are such as will stimulate his aesthetic and moral nature. Sooner or later the child wakes to the realization of some external influence that has been tug ging away at his senses and he shows 1t by self movement of some kind.
 Tt is so necessary to be close to the child. to have his confidence to live with him in fact until his thoughts and ways of living are so thoroughly fixed that it would be difficult for him tO change. A teacher should know what her pupils are doing out of school Her interest should not end win the subjects dealt of in the school room If the educational period were a period of perfect living. a period of pure thoughts and industry. waH directed there would be small likelihood of the grown individual being anything but credit to society. Many Of the vices that affiict humanity now would be eliminated. It is a wrong education that creates a lazy individual. the faculties that he would have cnioIrd using having been left dormant. Evil thoughts and as consequence evil deeds come Oftentimes because food of better quality has not beer of fered. No doubt many people are born good but there tEc many mere good from habit. Goodness 'S more habit than we hinK. Is it not then possible through natural methods cf education to make all good?
 Everyone enjoys being appr"c.atcI and if mans nIupatinn SaY.x-n1 to him where in society his talents would be best appreciated. how much more there would be in the world.
 The growth of the K q. has been slow. It is an expensive system of training. People cannot find an OK cuse for spending so much money on such small folk Can q system of ed ucatiOn that puts children in posses sion of all their faculties. develops the whole being physically. morally and spiritually, that fits him thoroughly to continue his growth be too ex- pensive?
 "I think the state could safely spend more than it does on it's children. Livery patriotic citizen would give his all to defend his country from an enemy why will he permit for want of proper education. enemies to grow up within his country. Enemies that in after years it takes more to care for than it would have taken to have trained alright. Would it not be cheaper in the end to accept the ex- pensive training for our little ones and guard them from the cradle than to permit them growing into thieves and We hear in every town whenever a new branch of culture iS We cannot do it: the ap is not large enough Make the appropriation large enough. Give the children the education they need. In after years it will return to you. You can save it on reform schools and penitentiaries. No child who grew up under K. G. culture was ever found in a reform school.
 Every year millions are spent in try to reform drunkards and men and women gone aStray I do not de cry the work. I think it is a glorious thing to pick up fallen brother, but I think it is a more glorious thing to protect him before he falls, that he may never have q period of his life to regret.
 II would like to see the K. q. a part of every school. I would like to see the mothers carry K. G. meth Ods into the home. In communities where children are not being nutured sufficiently either spiritually or ma terially, the state might place K. q. homes. One generation cared for to this extent would bring q leap in civilization. Two or three generations l of such education would knock down most of our jails and depOpulate our homes for inebriates. Incomplete edu- cation is largely responsible for our growth"