The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07

most interesting and instructive and
a course of lectures, with mock expert
mepts on first aid to the injured" by
well known trained nurse.
Every woman is destined to come
in contact in some capacity with child
hood and as kindergarten principles are
not confined to the kindergarten, but
can be applied through an entire life.
no girl can make a mistake in study
ing them, whether she expects to be-
come a Kindergarten or not.
There is no other field of study
where women can get so good a prep
aration for the duties of life. In the
training school there are some women
who are studying for other purposes
than for fitting themselves for a vo-
cation. Some have taken up the study
for the educational advantages it af-
fords and several married women IN
order that they may the better under
stand their children and thus become
more intelligent mothers. Primary
teachers are also taking the kinder
garten course knowing they will learn
the fundamental principles of peda-
gogy and be able to apply them to
their work to great advantage.
Froebel said, THE nursery was my
university" and it was this profound
student of child-nature who has laid
experiences that are enjoyed alike by
Kindergarten and child.
FroebePs ideas like any founded on
universal truths. may be studied over
and over and always with profit.
The kindergarten develops the best
that is in woman it does much to place
her in a harmonious attitude toward
the world, to make her cease Worrying
over things that cannot be helped. 1t
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of the great laws of nature are opened
to her, and both she and the children,
under her supervision are receiving
impressions that will develop a
strength of character that nothing can
destroy. Everything done in the kim
dergarten is based on psychological
principles which are studied all
through the two-year's course.
Before a junior has been in the class
many weeks she realizes that she can
not do for the child what she is not
trying to do for herself.
Feeling this responsibility she works
with herself to eradicate all irritabil-
ity from her disposition and tries to
develop the highest, best and truest
qualities, physical, mental and moral,
in both herself and the children.
There is a feeling of great sympathy
and love between the Kindergarten and
the children who look upon her as their
friend, not as a teacher, but as a play
mate, and she is in a position to exert
a great influence over their whole
lives.
In visiting a well-directed kinder
garten the visitor will find an air of
genuine happiness, cheerfulness, and
spontaneity and an undivided interest
among all engaged in the work.
The Kindergarten becomes a child
with the children, a learner with the
learners-they are learning through
their self-activity and questions are
asked in such way that through their
play they are easily, naturally and I'M
consciously treading the first steps of
a useful and noble life.
1t is a most interesting and delight
full thing to those who have already
passed through this Change of heart
and mind to watch a young woman
change from day to day as she studies
the children, and at the same time
learns to know herself.
All Undergraduates and mothers who
know anything of the work are filled
with enthusiasm. A recent graduate
remarked the other day, st paid one
hundred dollars for my training, and I
would not take one million for what it
has done for me-
The most progressive educators have
become so thoroughly convinced of the
value of kindergarten methods that
they are being introduced in schools
all over the country.
The kindergarten forms a basis for
all primary work. There is a bill now
pending in the Legislature of the state
of Florida that the kindergarten will
be Incorporated as a part of the public
school system. Last year the manage
ment of the Kate Baldwin Free Kin
dergartens had to refuse several ap-
plications for kindergartens, because
although a class of ten graduated, the
supply was not equal to the demand.
This is one of the many strong argu-
ments for women desiring positions to
enter the training school without de-
lay.
The better one is educated the better
Kindergarten she is apt to make. AS
a rule, no girl under Is years of age
will be admitted unless she can show
a high-school diploma or its equiva-