The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-17
THE VALUE OF KINDERGARTENS.

What is the kindergarten Just what does it mean TO DC
kindergariner These questions the ever widening III
,eres through the South in the new education makes peru
rt "The kindergarten rightly understood contains all inc
germs Of modern education the contains the oak
saws Dr. lyman Abbot It place where little children
or, thew are ready for school started in right drec
tons where they helped lay for themselves the toun
tops ior futurc right thinking and doing where they
bi tho formation Of good habits of mind and body The
kndereaen is place where the little child receive the
training which his mother has not time TO give him. were she
ro7pecnt 10 do So place where he is thrown win ms
eouasehildren Of his own aeeas is not possible IN ms
own home place where every day for three hours he is
bped TO he his very best self in all his relationships
active helpful loving self
The Kindergarten aims to provide the child with the best
and helpful experiences and to lead him to get the
very out Of them,
Tho importance OF the kindergarten largely upon the
TACT that is at carly that the child is most keey
alive his senses alert and his mind most plastic to re-
ceye impressions from either good evil influences 1t is
through play the natural instructor Godgvcn means Tor
the chids DEVELOPMENTS that in the kindergarten arc
reached Through the work there to be only play and
i, often criticised for this thing 1t is play based ON
our insight into the needs child nature, and under
standing of the governing his development Schiller
has said the of any that lit appears as play
What doe, il mean be kindergarten Elizabeth Pea
body once said To be kindergarten is the perfect devc-
eminent OF vomanncssa working with God at the very
fountain of artistic and intellectual and moral charac-
ter It is therefore the highest finish that be given
woman education to be educated for kindergarten A
good Kindergarten who thoroughly trained in her
profession She has studied the history Of education and has
knowledge Of the progress that has been made along TINS
line She has studied the history OF primitive man that she
NAV have an understanding OF the factors which have brought
about the progress OF nations from savagcry to civilization
as all child students agree that his development the ndi
dua passes through approximately the stages does
the race She has studied the chld natureand continues
to study 1.-THE laws of his growth mental moral and phys
cal that she may her training conform to them and not
through ignorance upon him what he not ready Tor
nor require him than he his Of development
can give While She has been acquiring an insight into the
science OF education and the of teaching she has been
fitting herself only for kindergarner but for fuller
cer nobler living She has been gaining knowledge which
she can use in many directions has been putting i'll practice
daily principles which undec all educational systems The
kadercsrucr has been doing all this herself while the
same time by daily work she has been helping many
little one along paths which will lead his happiness
has been bringing brightness and JOY to many whose lives,
but her might have remained unhappy and neglected
The influence of the training school OF the New Orleans
Free kindergarten spreading through the South
and In is hoped that iu the will be still widely
felt There arc i'm all thry-nnc graduates Of the school
OF these eighteen work the city six in the public
schools ten others educational institutions and private
kndcrgacns OF those who doing work outside OF New
Orleans are Basrop Bealvoir at Baton
Rouge two at Natchcz Miss in Virginia, in Mont
gonery Ala Mobile In the training school the
theory practice OF the kindergarten system hand in
hand The classes for normal students held the alter
moons Kingsley house the social settlement OF New Or
leans One of the free dndcreartens is in connection with
this institutions the others different parts of the city
ia neshborhoods which icky populated and where chill
drcn crowd in such numbers that they
be accommodated 1t in these kndergartcns that the
dents have their daily practice work Are there young
women in this part State who DESTROYS OF fitting
themselves for such vital practical work in the world
done in the kindergarten Any Information regard to
the training school can he obtained from
MARGARET LEONARD
1zo7 Anruncation Street New Orleans 7 a