Show the kindergarten system EDITOR kindly allow me through your coquias to say a few words about kindergartens A vigorous movement is being made to establish kindergartens throughout the territory and it is ie demonstrated here in logon logan by bv tle the establishment of an excellent kindergarten der garten and training school where here quite a number of young ladies are preparing them elve for future Kindergarten eis this speaks well for logan and chope I 1 hope in the near fatme that kindergarten der Jer garten methods will be ba understood sufficiently well in our corn coni to insure a flourishing kinder kindergarten garten in each ward in the city having been asked by quite a number what the kindergarten really I 1 is and w hat fiat it does for our children chi I 1 dren I 1 it will ill briefly explain its object fo fully enter into the details of the kindergarten system would take up too much space pace besides requiring more ability to make it than I 1 possess freidich Freid Fro froebel ebell a native of germany established the first kindergarten der garten in tile the year 1840 1340 the curriculum luin of bibich vas the outgrowth of many years study and experience and while it cannot be truly said that froebel was the originator of all the ideas embodied lit in the new education as the kindergarten der garten girten system is called yet he be materialized ed improved and made use of methods advanced by pesta aloyzy rousseau Co comelius and others even going back as far us its plato for ideas which when materialized resulted in the kindergarten methods ghods and course of training t as vo M e have them today in every rue kindergarten froebel lr upon establishing himself as a teacher and in laying a foundation for future kindergarten to build upon states that the object of the Kindel gaiten is to take the oversight of children before they are ready for school life to exert and influence bodily powers to increase the senses to employ the awakening mind to make inake them thoughtfully acquainted with the world of nature and of man to guide their heart and soul in a right direction and to lead thern them to the origin of all life and to union with him for perfect development there must be as froebel terms it I a threefold three fold development i e the development of the bo ly mind and soul the kindergarten accomplishes this by means of its plas games gilts gifts and occupations through the lie plays and games the muscles of the body are exercised and developed and the mind is awakened by sympathy and suggestive movements until the child spontaneously imitates what nhat he is trying to under understand by means of the gifts and occupations the child is ia taught f four our I 1 contrasts mediation or reconciliation of opposites and the blending i of colors b by y which its powers 0 observation liger and classification strengthened and developed besides this neatness accuracy and tle the in invent ne powers are cultivated as the fancy or taste may direct politeness gentleness sociability and discipline are inculcated in ill kindergarten in company with each other the children learn the duties of society and ad their dependence upon each other they learn to respect and honor the I 1 laws aws of the school and to obey their teacher the fact methods cods hods of dinst diction are simple ei bpi being I 1 g suited to the capacity and understanding of the chili chil I 1 NN chile hile the discipline is passive II 11 and dij following find and abbi arary measures being adopted only when necessary for the improve beut of tile child if there were free kinder bartens in every community there would be les less a neglect les es sin ein allol vice aln among your children for the I 1 hole bole effect of the L ten is to prevent crime one bad boy in a community will iha have ve more influence over alar A large number of children than hilf halt a dozen good ones will have and he be will probably be the means of leading many of them into N re ile and vicious acts ineich not only destroy the peace and happiness of themselves and families but the community at large must euffer the consequences this can only be remedied liy by having kindergartens within the reach of f every child the younger the better just bo they are out of the mothers arms whore where they are I 1 not to t only told to be good but are inspired of by help and sympathy to be good the mission of every true kindergartner gart neris is to toad teach the little ones a under roder her care to love god to understand deesta der stand nd his essence which animates tes all nature and to teach them to embody in their own lives the precepts and example exam rile of jesus jesua it all ittle fh rh ildren could be kept froni from the wicked and andI pernicious in fl uerice ot of the streets by placing them in the pure and IT heavenly influence fl ence of a true kindergarten where they U could he be taught all that is good and noble what advancement would be made in freeing our core cono muni mu cities lies hom idle vagabondism and flaunting immoralities cecelo says man must be early trained to the conviction that grid god i is s the director of all things and that ile he sees the inmost thought of men it is 13 only by this means that men will be breser preserved ved aiom foolish and wickedness the kindergarten work is a noble one which calls forth the best energy of its teachers and promotes the best interest of the chil dreeby laying a firm foundation for all future educational development it prepares the child for a clear c comprehension ompre compre henion of his hia lifes wor kandl eada aitto communion with w ith god in this life and to a hope of reunion with him in eternity HITTIE C JENSEN |