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Show 4 . ; I Home and School League 4 " ANSWERS TO OBJECTIONS TO THE KINDERGARTEN, By Miss Rose Jones, Director of Kindergarten, Kin-dergarten, University of Utah. The following; answers to objections to the kindergarten have been prepared in the kindergarten divisiou, bureau of education, Washington, in co-operation with the international kindergarten union. The objections quoted here have been urged against the kindergarten from time to time, chiefly by persons who have no clear conception of the place which the kindergarten holds today to-day in relation to education, or whose opinions are largely tho result of prejudice preju-dice and second-hand judgment, and not of intelligent and personal observation of this form of child training. 1. '"Some primary teachers say that kindergarten children are hard to manage; man-age; they prefer to receive children fresh from home.' Answr: To sav that some primary teachers find kindergarten children "hard to manage'' and that they prefer children without kindergarten training would indicate that these teachers are interested chiefly in the management of children, rather "than their development, which should not be true. A teacher who depends on the sense of awe and separation which characterizes children fresh from the home will naturally have little sympathy with the child from the kindergarten. If she confuses order with passivity, and self-expression with license, she will have difficulty with children from the best kindergartens. She fails to understand and practice the, principle of self -activity in education. Modern psychology and hygiene agree in emphasizing the importance of freedom free-dom of thought and action at the kindergarten kin-dergarten nse. In some instances the criticism is due to inadequate kindergarten practice. There may be kindergartners who do not represent the ideal, as there are teachers teach-ers in all grades who fal belowMhe best educational standards. The kindergarten child who has received re-ceived from his kindergarten training what it is designed to give bim and ; what in the vast majority of ca?es he docs get, goes into t lie prima rv room with senses keen and alcrf, skill of eye and baud, power of attention, habit of |