The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-19
TEACHING OF YOUNG CHILDREN.

The method children which
attention educational world during
four five to have practical yout at hero San
and it in charge of competent persons There to be
three periods of month each during the and by the
end of the last of these the merits of the should be fairly well
determined the San Francisco Argonaut Nine Montesso and
followers have assrey achieved very notable results
main to tried out in broad applications Originally and funda
mentally the devised for defective children The theory
well with defective child of weveuw be equally eff
fective with child of say four five That this
normal child there suspect differences of mind and DISPOSE
ton of receptive powers and of capacity for establishing habits
variations between the defective mind and the normal mind But
be thsas may the experiment worth while and it will be fol
lowed with attention who attracted by
Moneor system both by its in her school in Rome and by
the philosophy upon which it is founded thing
w. methods of teaching children very far from being
perfect In many respects we question they effective
the side OF which ready of pedagogc
cipne Learning indeed has been made easy. and sometimes
think easy Easy easy go maxim which applies
the sphere of education precisely the sphere of economies
1t only few that the educational world
qualified endorsement the kindergarten system which took chill
dren almost from infancy and turned the work of education G
veng Measured by conceptions of easm and judged by
certain sentimental and picturesque standards the Kindergarten
tremendous But later and sober Judgment has not
tended confirm earlier opinions has been
nave the word OF experienced teachers for THAI children OF the
kindergarten while they exhibit certain mental Ell
hceney gam niue or nothing the way OF real training They
have been taught not to work but to play They have acquired
neither habits of industry of obedience Coming
have much to meamuch which tends turn the hair of the
academic teacher If it be true certain psychologists have
al the formative those
childhood then it not be true that of teaching which
does not in those enforce habits of diligence and obedience
good child fixed in the habit of following whms
and of turning work into play child essentially damaged in its
capacity for serious effort.
1t rte remark that education the etymoogy of the
reveals, of individual Development bringing
heren qualities and capacities and making the of them 1t fol
lows in logic and that scheme of education which
everses the order must be Nature pretty school
mistress though hard She nsucts subtle
but IN her method there rmorSeess She does
tempt does the kindergarten make things easy
as does the MoneSSorI the wind the sho lamb
The rule of the survival of the htest natures rule in education
IN other things And that for children this
correct principle When work turned into play when things
made when ajoley established in place duty when
IL made to instead of uitythere suspect flying IN
the face of nature which produce Lady Cares and Little
Lord Famteroy of eight later prcentous sssy
and nsuabc prgS The work of education young
calls for devoted and serious mind Any effort
devices short in the of the child
~ result in damage than in benefit