Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Golden Jubilee Edition of the Paradise of Childhood: A Practical Guide to Kindergartners
Dr. John Dewey says in The School and Curriculum, It'is easier to see the conditions in their separateness, to insist upon one at the expense of the other, to make antagonists of them, than to dis cover a reality to which each belongs. The easy thing is to seize upon something in the nature of the child, or upon something in the developed consciousness of the adult, and insist upon that as the key to the whole problem. When this happens a really serious practical problem - that of interaction - is transformed into an unreal and hence insoluble theoretic problem.
In Education of Man Froebel speaks of the value of comparison. He says, Only the study of the life of others can furnish such points of comparison with the life one himself has experienced. It is, after all, the golden mean which we are seeking. Education is an art, the practice of which can become perfect only through many generations, said the great philosopher, Kant.
Both conservatives and progressives unite in recognizing the kindergarten as the social center needed by children after the first three or four years of life have been nurtured in the home.
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