| Show THE KINDERGARTEN 1 Vovomsnt Unrivaled In the Illitory of Natlonul Education Of tho sixteen American cities with a population of over 200000 in 1800 only fourPhiladelphia Boston Milwaukee Mil-waukee nnd St Louis have incorporated incor-porated tho kindergarten on any largo scale In their publicschool systems writes Talcott Williams in tho Century Four moro Now York Chicago Brooklyn Brook-lyn nnd Buffalo have kindergarten associations sociations organized to introduce tho new method as a part of free public education In Sau Francisco kindergartens kinder-gartens are maintained with no apparent appar-ent oxpectntion of uniting them to th < free school system Only Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland nnd Detroit among tho seven cities left the other three being Pittsburgh Washington and Now Orleansarc returned as hav k1 A I 1i W 1 1 I W I WI hr I z 11 rmltDmCII FIIOEflRL Fdunder of the Kindergarten System I Ing charitable or religious association supporting kindergartens In 188788 fortysix lesser places were named all having ono or moro kindergartens mostly experimental connected wit public schools The entlrd work of providing a special education for children chil-dren from three to six years of ago is still in this stage in this country coun-try Contrast this with France where the ecolet materndlcs begun by Oborlin in 1771 and given new life in 1820 bj Mine Millet have substantially adopt cd the Frobelian principle and practice and had in 188788 annttendance of 741 224 between tho ages of three and six In n population only twothirds that of the United States and having a far Smaller proportion of young children Compared however with like move merits to secure the education of a class or the adoptloq of a new system q f teaching the kindergarten movement may fairly bo considered unrivaled in tho history of national education Tho good Lord could not be everywhere therefore lie mado mothers said the Jewish inbbl familiar with tho type of Jewish motherhood which in its su premo manifestation at Nazareth has transfigured the ofllce estimate and influence in-fluence of womanhood throughout tho civilied world The cause of these schools rounding out tho work and supplementing tho responsibility of mothers rich or poor has appealed tc tho maternal instinct of women wherever wher-ever it has been presented Tho movement move-ment has been essentially theirs They have led it supported its schools ofii cored its associations and urged its agi tatlon The same work remains to be done throughout tho land There is not a city a village or a hamlet which will not be the better for a kindergarten association Experience has amply proved that these schools will never be introduced or established save by self sacrificing pressure Dlfllcultles have vanished Teachers Imvo multiplied Expenses have been reduced There b needed only tho personal effort India pensable for general success and tint versal adoption |
