The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-24
TO BROADEN FIELD
work OF KATE BALDWIN KIN
DERGARTEN TO BE EXTENDED
APOSTLES OF THE FAITH.
SENT OUT FROM THE TRAINING
SCHOOL TO OTHER CITIES.

Graduating Exercises of Training
School Will BE Designed to Elk
hibit to the Public the Philosophy
and Practice of the kindergarten
System of Observation-Disclosures SYM
pathy Needed in the WOrk-The
Theory Applied to Education OF
Older Children-Manual Training
and Its Reason to Be-A Chasm be-
tween Two Educational Extremes.
The plans of the founders and moving
spirits of the Kate Baldwin Free Kin
dergarten contemplate a gradual increase
in the scope of the work and the field of
usefulness of the kindergarten system in
Savannah and Georgia.
This plan of gradual increase has been
already illustrated in the addition of two
kindergarten to the school first estab-
lished and the inauguration of a training
school for teachers, wherein is taught,
philosophically and practically, the kim
dergarten system of education. The
young women who are taking the difficult
and arduous course of study exacted Of
candidates for graduation from the
schoo Twill lbe fitted, when they receive
their diplomas, to take charge of these in
situations anywhere.
Mr.. George J. Baldwin stated yester-
day that, in pursuance of the wish and
plan to extend the institutions field IF
usefulness, every effort is made to Sc
cure the attendance at the training school
of competent and we'll prepared young
women from the interior cities and towns
of the state, who may carry the instruc-
ton, and the new light they receive back
with them to their homes.
When the graduating exercises Of the
training school are held in May, 1t is
the purpose to have them take place IN
some public hall. The plan of kindergar-
ten instruction is to be Illustrated then
by the conduct of a class of children,
which in the several departments of kin
dergarten work, will exemplify the pur-
pose of and the reason for each.
These public exercises are designed as
much for the education of the public in
the science of kindergarten instruction as
to display specially what has been accom-
plished in the training school To accom-
plish successfully the broad objects that
ln6 lOQIlQ6IS Oh LHe lilSllIuAlOtA COthlSih-
plate requires the sympathy and assist
ance of strong public sentiment So
convinced are Mr.. Baldwin and his sis
der of the correctness Of the kindergar
ten theories and their value in child edu-
cation that they feel confident that the
sympathy and cooperation needed will
all be forthcoming, as soon as the public
has been awakened to the real philosophy
of the system. Indeed they are much en-
couraged by the evidences of general pub
lie intrest they have already received.
The Kindergarten, valuable though it's
influences be, is not an end, in the plan
of the local institution, but the means to
an end. 1t is the purpose of the founders
of the institution to continue the system
of manual training through higher grades
and in successive periods of child growth
and development.
These ultimate aims are well set forth
in the declaration of principles adopted by
the Industrial Education Association
which have been called THE Articles of
Faith" of that association, and to the
correctness of which Mr.. Baldwin yields
unqualified approval. These declarations
are as follows:
THAT the complete development of all
the faculties can be reached only through
a system of education which combines the
training found in the usual course of
study with the elements of manual train
ing.
That the current system trains the
memory too largely, the reasoning powers
less the eye and hand too little.
THAT industrial training, to have its
fullest value, must be an integral part
of general education. While valuable in
some measure alone, it is alone little bet
ter than manual training as leading to
the learning of trades
THAT it is not the aim of the associa-
ton to teach trades That boys and girls
will, if educated according to the system
which it advocates, be better able to take
recognizes as one of the results of the
faculties which it holds to be the essen
tial aim of the system.
"That the fact is generally recognized,
among those best informed on the sub
ject of education, that the kindergarten
system produces the best results with
young children. The association claims
that the system which combines indus
trial training with the usual and neces-
sary branches is nothing more than
development of the kindergarten theory;
system found wise for young children,
modified and adapted to children of more
mature growth.
THAT, as children, wherever found, pos
sess the same faculties and develop the
same characteristics, this system should
be introduced into all classes and grades
of schools, the private as well as the pub
lie, and not alone in the primary public