Kindergarten

Before the age of six or seven, education proceeds by imitation and example, in essence. The kindergarten teacher acts and the children naturally and spontaneously imitate – all activities ideally derive from this source, which is the primal will and sympathy of the small child, and the moral guidance of the teacher.

From the magic of nature’s household, the rhythm of the day, and the great cycles of the moon and sun, arise impressions which transmute into story, song, poetry, play-acting, creative movement, drawing, painting, craft and play. Flowing into these impressions, merges the great stream of myth and fairy-tale, our original cultural heritage. Hence the child is encouraged to participate in the great world which is at once natural, cosmic and human, spatial and temporal.