Excerpt from Kindergarten at Home: A Kindergarten Course for the Individual Child at Home
A child who has reached the age of four or five seems to demand some kind of "busy work" and almost any makeshift is usually resorted to in order to provide occupation for him. More often than not, such occupation takes the form of instruction in his A, B, C's, long before he is ready or fitted for it; but, as Froebel says, "The A, B, C of things must precede the A, B, C of words," and the kindergarten exactly fills this need, providing instead of haphazard work and play, systematic training of the child's powers and faculties * As the successful man is one who "does things," so also is the successful child one who "does things."
Although there is no doubt of the great value of kindergarten training for every child, yet on account of the inaccessibility of good kindergartens in all but the largest cities, the difficulties in the way of sending small children out to school, the expense, etc., comparatively few can avail themselves of the advantages and privileges that such a training affords
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