KINDERGARTEN.
The need for the establishment of kindergarten departments at the largei city schools was strongly advocated by Mr E. K. Mulgan, Chief Inspector of Schdols, in a ispeech at the opening of a new infant depaitnient at the Napier Sti*eet School, Auckland. The present national system of education, said Mr Mulgan, took charge of the child at the age of five years, though attendance was not compulsory till seven. The mast progressive communities, however, recognised that some training specially adapted to the needs of younger children was highly important, and had provided kindergarten schools which were attended by children #t an earlier age than the one selected in New Zealand for the beginning of school life. Kindergarten; training was the best possible preparation for ordinary work, besides being the basis of true technical,education. Large numbers of children were now attending kindergarten schools over which the Education Department had little or no control or. supervision.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 September 1913, Page 4
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155KINDERGARTEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 September 1913, Page 4
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