Kindergarten — A New Method of Teaching Children

1874

Kindergarten is a term applied to Froebel's method of teaching children. Its object is to combine instruction with amusement so skillfully that the child shall be developed harmoniously in body and mind without fatigue and with only pleasurable effort.

This is accomplished by what is called object teaching. The child does not study books, but things, and is taught to give the name, the shape, the qualities, the colors, the uses, and perhaps the origin, of the various objects around him.

This method of teaching is admirably set forth in "Galkins' Primary Object Lessons." There are object-teaching aids, consisting of forms, cards with all the tints and shades of the various colors, and a great deal of like material that can be obtained at educational agencies.

The system is gaining ground in our large cities, and there are Kindergarten schools in New York and Boston, where teachers are trained in this new method.



Not anything should I destroy
Which others may for good employ
Not even tread beneath my feet
A crumb some little bird might eat.
— Children's Hour.