The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-18
Nothing Is Too Good for
Little Children is the
School Motto.
OBSERVATION
OF INDIVIDUALS
Richmond the Ideal Place for
Training Children Because of
Its Historic Features-Many
Advantages of Residence
in This City-Scien-
tiic Help Given.

Not so long ago people thought any
thins is good enough for little chill
dren' Now. after few years have
rolled around. behold nothing is good
enough for little children. Nothing is
too good for the start. whether OF
orchard trees or human beings, and no
training is too careful for the gar
deners to whom are entrusted the ten
der plants
The teachers need for teaching has
called for such schools as the rich
mond Training School for kinder
sartners The whole EFFORT of this
school is to give something that viii,
make some one good enough to teach
little children. Such training is OF
value, not only to professional teach.
Iers but to sisters. mothers. child
lovers everywhere. 4 normal grown
person ought to find it an easy lob to
erect lot of mere children. When
SUNDAY afternoon comes and the nurse
is gone and half a dozen or so ara
left on your hands. is it easy? How
can each be free and yet preserve their
respective limbs and organs whole,
klndersarten training Will not tell
you how. but it will give foundations
that help to find out way--founda
tons that will aid such inquiry bet
ter than Sage or Carnegie funds.
The content OF this training is well
known. Plenty of practice plenty ot
Individual observation plenty of study
arc its first requisites 1t demands
thorough acquaintance with the psych
olosy of growing children as inter-
preted by the leading psychologists Of
the day-James. Baldwin. Harris. suny
and others. This means CORE
spending familiarity with Psychology
and hygiene. 1t dema nds cultivation
of the aesthetic nature through arr.
music and rhythmic motion. a recog-
milton OF ethical principles and physi-
cal and spiritual needs. Each student
must serve an apprenticeship in
kindergarten One OF the great Fro
belian texts is, Learn through doing
NO place could be better Tor such
study than Richmond AS the largest
city In Virginia, IL OFFERS t. variety
OF practice that cannot be had else
where. This fun practice is to the
kindergarton student what the city
clinic is "a the medical student. and
nothing can take the place Of 1T.
Through the courtesy OF the school au-
thorities the students OF this training
school arc permitted TO worl. in the
public school kinderg artens. There
arc also mission and private kinder
gartcns which give opportunities for
outside organization and afford
slightly different experience. Lam
guage and gesture must sometimes be
reduced to the simplest form. in or
der to reach the understanding of
some newly arrived little Greek.
syrian. Italian or Russian Jew. The
three practice periods OF each student
in her senior year are placed In Diff
ferent localities. In order TO insure
varied experience Naturally each
young woman profits enormously by
her acquaintance with ell sorts and
conditions OF children.
The other advantages of residence
IN tho capital city are easily appre
oiated Historically, 1t Is rich in as
sociations. every step makes alive
some person or deed which has been
but statement on the pages OF some
hook Washington becomes more than
a chopper OF cherry trees and origira
tor OF cherry smash when We view Him
Surrounded nv the ,ther great yir-
sinians in the Capitol Square. y nos.
sible John Marshall, q Poe Patrick
Henry may at any time he in our
midst IS the old Romans taught his
tory through the stories OF their own
heroes. so may each NirsInia child
(CoEtinued on Second Paxel