Excerpt from Gateways to Art and Industry
During the last decade, the kindergarten has generally become the accepted first grade of public schools, especially in large cities.
Its recognition demands the development of instinctive impulse - emphasis on social co-operation and kindliness, and work based on active, expressional and appreciative, rather than technical, analytic, and receptive values in education. Where the work is well done, these characteristics have given it a constantly increasing respect.
Where the work is neglected or in the hands of inefficient or unintelligent people, it suffers from criticism a little more than does dishonest or unsatisfactory work in higher grades. The reason for this is, that it is a newer phase of education, that its values must be apprehended by an intrinsic standard, and that in some cases the young teachers lack the power to adjust themselves intelligently and definitely to the larger work of the school curriculum.
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