Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — The Kinderg 'rten. [ARTICLE]

The Kinderg 'rten.

The kindergarten is very imperfectly understood even by many parents who send their children to it. It is very apt to be the case that parents send their children to such a place to get rid of them for a time, and it is often true that it. cannot be seen that the child is learning anything. Day after day and week after week nothing seems to be learned. But, as a matter of fact, the child is gaining a knowledge of principles that will stick to it all through life. It should be lemembered that during the first seven years of a child’s life it is the most impressionable A certain church authority says: “Give us the child’s training for the first seven years, and we do not care who has the after training. ” There is agreat deal of truth in that; and so the little boy and girl in the kindergarten, under competent instruction, make very rapid progress, though the parent may net always see it. —Western Rural.