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Show Relation of the Kindergarten Kinder-garten to the School. What the prelude is to the'organ-ist the'organ-ist and the tuning up to the orches tra, the Kindergarten is to the school Plunge fifty or more little children f oin the iree life of th- home and i uiuy yard into a typical prjmai) i -cmtM and it dazes many . f them iciaily and m ntaliy, so that the., are not at their ease lor weeks. A few over-ambitious children .lonupolize the center of tae stage, naking the dazed ones appear ano eel stupid. About one hali of all the retardec children are retarded because ihey are made self-conscious of their slowness, slow-ness, dullness and stupidity , and they make no effort to get in time, no attempt at-tempt to get in pace. The retarded pupils cost the taxpayers tax-payers upwards of twenty-five millions, mill-ions, of dollars a year. Thev cause one-fourth of the nervous strain of the teachers. They rob the rest of the children of much of tne teacher's teach-er's attention that belongs to them. To save the twenty-five million dollars, waste the teacher's nerve shrai ., that time and effort that belong be-long to all the children would be a vast achievement. The Kindergarten can do all of this and more if the primary grades will accept their share of the responsibility responsi-bility for -he adjustment. ' Iii the Kindergarten there is no magnifying of the immature, the shy, the timid, the slow, or the blundering. blun-dering. The children are taken from the home and play-yard and are brot into tune, time and action. Giadu-ally Giadu-ally and harmoniously ihey are sent forward with no emphasis upon their differences. If the primary school accepts ib responsibility a Kindergarten promoted pro-moted class may keep itself vei y near a unit for the entire eight grades. Who can estimate the significance of this unification by the illiminatioi of the self-consciousness of the im mature, the shy and the slow. The Kindergarten may save tht tax-payers many times the cost, ma;-postpone ma;-postpone the teachers retiremeni several years and may impart to the work of the other children an inex-pressable inex-pressable impulse. Dr. Winship. |