Show I Home and School League League Answers to Objections to the Kinder Kinder- g garten By Miss Rose Jones Director of of Kindergarten University of Utah III Ill The kindergarten n makes children children children chil chil- dren nervous they want to do something something something some some- I thing different all the time or else be entertained Answer If such conditions result from kindergarten training they should I be charged to special cases or to the Individual t teacher acher and not to the I j tern The good kindergarten controls j I and directs nerve energy One of its aims is the gradual gain of power of application The kindergarten in which a teacher does doE's nt dominate in which the children children children chil chil- dren make male their own problems and andare andare I are re allowed freedom in their solution in which initiative and self-reliance self are developed will be befree free from the dangers of individual capriciousness The children will win acquire ability to amuse themselves skill in handling material and and n a power o of- of self-control self which prevents nervousness and peevishness IV At HAt four or five years ears of age children should be nothing but healthy little animals It is time enough to chain them to desks and books when they ar are are six or bett better r still seven years old Answer The child who is only an animal at the age of ot four or five does not give good pron promise ise of a man made in the tile image of God At no period of the childs child's life is hc he nothing but hut a healthy little animal in considering what should be done with him at any period it is quite as us important to recognize recognize rec rec- his ultimate destiny as it is to consider his animal heredity One can be strained over quite as much as the other The kindergarten holds that balanced balanced bal hal view which gives due attention to the demands of his physical being without Ignoring hints of a a t higher life which lie in his spontaneous activity The kindergarten agre agrees s wholly with the view that children should not be I chained to desks and books at six years of age Not only permit great freedon freedom of movement In isi i its s owe sphere using neither desks nor books hooks but Its example and spirit are developing developing developing devel devel- freedom from cramping desks s in primary rooms everywhere ANNOUNCEMENTS The next regular meeting of the Home and School league will be held in room city and county building Tuesday January 2 2 p. p m. m G. G N. N Child assistant superintendent of I schools will address the meeting on I The Coming Legislation The Ensign Teachers' Teachers association association association asso asso- I will hold its next regular meetIng meeting meeting meet meet- ing Tuesday January 2 p. p m. m J. J Leo Fairbanks will speak on Art Artin in the Home Music will be furnished by the school orchestra Program for boys' boys and girls' girls matinee at the Paramount-Empress Paramount theatre Sunday Sunda December 30 1015 1016 a. a m m. will willbe willbe willbe be as follOws in Snowflake Ditmars Ditmar's zoo pictures Bobby Burno |