Show kindergarten emphasizes CHARACTER EDUCATION children of five to six years of age are naturally very active undirected they often acquire unwholesome habits of activity they learn the less desirable as readily as the more inore desirable with the training given them in th the e kindergarten they are led to acquire efficient and wholesome habits economically the kindergarten does not alm aim to teach them to read but it does train them in courtesy cooperation and kindliness nodes modes of conduct that are more important than special skill in the regular school subjects it Is here as gesell says that they learn the alphabet of life this alphabet consists ot of activities that are more valuable than learning letters many an illiterate man has a achieved c greatness but every great man has developed personal character traits and ideals that lifted h him int above his fellows initiative self reliance and self determination mi are among these qualities of of character that usually are found in great men kindergarten training develops these qualities that statesmen are becoming aware 0 of the importance of caring properly for young children both and mentally was waa shown at the recent white 1 arouse house conference on child healthy health and protection speaking be fore iffa conference president hoover said i these theae questions child I 1 health le a I 1 th and pro protection lection tec tion are complicated problems requiring much learning and and we need have great concern over this matter let no one believe that these are questions which should not stir a nation that they are aie below the dignity of statesmen of 0 government it we could have but one generation of properly born trained educated and and healthy children a thousand other problems leml of government would vanish ai the representatives at that conference suggests a nineteen point program in child training it was dis covered that fewer than a fourth of children between five and six years of age in the united states receive adequate early training hence one of he points in the recommended program reads as follows anything 1 that can be dono done publicly or privately to make state and municipal organizations aware ot of the em cm poi tance of the kindergarten and facilitate its development as a part of the public school will receive the hearty endorsement of the committee the foundation for character good or 01 bad Is laid early in life As the twig Is bent the tree inclines the f kindergarten prevents the tha adverse bonding bending of the child twig it trains the child ln in uprightness in working with others the child learns learna cooperation and self control ho he develops moral courage and civic pride in short he hd acquires those habits and traits of character that prepare him to take his place later as aa an intelligent citizen in a democratic social community |