The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1903-12-12
OTHER KIN rERGA RTEN
FOR FRANKFORT.


our city financially. cducatioually
and morally. one who earnestly
wishes To see certain conditions
altered which now are . detriment
and disgrace. ~ well a. a continual
expense. addresses this article.
trusting Won viii carefully consider
it. With Il view OF lending your aid
whether il be your good will, your
personal help, or your money! Tor
the good 81 Frankfort.
In the first place il il matter of
patriotism and a. such should re-
ceive your earnest consideration.
in the second place il * "a matter
that will sooner or later be called
your "self-defenSo.
In short. i advocate the need OF
another kindergarten for the chill
dren who live too far from our City
School to attend the one there.
Have YOU thought of the distance
the child ZEN who live on the West
side have to walk to attend the City
School? 1t is impossible for chill
dren. four and six years of age. TO
walk that distance and if they at
tend the Kindergarten, it becomes
necessary for Il he city to have a
IN
The old cry. I'VE can't afford to
support another school contra
diets itself at the very outset. The
Kindergarten is a direct benefit to
the city Internationally. financially,
and morally. 1t has been proven
in other cities, and if you consider
the problem fairly, it will not be
long before another school is estab-
llshed.
1t may be well to briefly define
the kindergarten. for you may be
one of those who consider it nur-
sery for children with new
name). whose parents are relieved,
for time, of their care, while they
earn "a livelihood or attend to social
duties. If the Kinder Iarten were
public nursery, any good. kindly
nurse would do all that is neces-
sary. What scope would a well ed
ucated, cultured young woman find
for her power in the kindergarten
the poor only; the kindergarten for
all classes of society,"
THE Kindergarten is that which
is between the BEST home and the
BEST primary school.
1t is for character, rather than
information habit, rather than pre-
cept."
kindergarten, literally. means
garden of children, and the Kind
paIten is the Garden which tends
each child as to it's own peculiar
needs.
In the kindergarten we, through
songs and stories, keep the chill
dren in an atmosphere of high
ideals and in their occupations,
games, and association with one
another, they put these ideals into
practice. TO be happy-live right.
To be helpful. we count a privileges;
and only those who strive to be
true are capable of helpfulness.
The most important age Of man is
that from four to seven years, for it
is then that the principles that will
govern his whole after life are inn
bibed. The Catholic Priest. who
said: "Give me the children till
their seventh year and ! will make
Catholics of the world realized
the Importance of training during
that pei iOf.
Phillips Brooks has said, He who
helps child, helps humanity with
n dictinctness, with an Immediate
ness, which no other help given to
human creatures, in any other stage
of their human life, can possibly
give again. 1t is the help given at
the right time that is "a blessing.
Ideas and habits formed at this
stage of "A child's life, determine
the man and woman of later years.
"Train up II child in the way he
should 90. and when he is old he
will not depart from it, Froebel
says. The earliest age is the most
important for education, because
the beginning determines the end.
In our little world, interdepend-
cHce. cooperation, compensation
aud the brotherhood of man are
principles we Try to instill through
play. Play is rs real 10 IA child IA
business il TO a man, and it is III
this simple way that children are
taught the great truths of life.
In the world : WORK each must
brlp.' This is tn" Is indergarten
briefly. Can YOU d"ubt lis power
for good NOW and in after years?
That these truths are emphasized
la our little school by no means
makes our children unhappy or
priggish. The true Kindergarten
is the happiest, merriest place any
one could imagine. We know that |
joyless children DO not make good I
men.
That you might be more fully |
as 10 the need uf Il kll d. /
rgartcn. have written To persons. /
ia city affairs, for thri! |
views OF the matter.
Lexington has Kindergartens in
nearly every district of the city. /
~. a. Cassidy, Supt. al Schools |
there. when asked if the Kinder /
earten was IA benefit from an educa-
.iunal. financial aud moral stand