Published by Starfish
"When Frederich Nobel, the inventor of Kindergarten in 19th-century Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a 'garden of children' in mind, but a metaphor as teachers as gardeners and children as the vegetables. Kindergarten was created by a way to break the influence of their mothers on their children. " -John Gatto
This time of year there are a lot of mothers expressing anxiety over having to give up their children to Kindergarten. Sometimes I want to tell them, "You don't have to!" I think the above quote says it all.
I am a mother and I am more than just a maid and a cook. I am a teacher. I refuse to let others have such a prominent influence on them. Young minds are ripe, I'm going to stuff them with all the information about goodness and proper learning that I can.
Well stated! Every mother is a teacher and manages a "home school" - how formal it is depends on the mom.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully put. The hard part is weeding out all that the wind blows in, keeping their fertile minds free of clutter and toxins that impede their personal growth. ...j
ReplyDeleteI don't get this. I'm a mom and was a kindergarten teacher. I am also a good Christian and so are other kindergarten teachers. I never had a curriculum given to me that would be putting trash in my students heads for their parents to weed out. The curriculum focused on morals, and academics. In fact I had a lot of students coming from broken homes who needed to have the messes at home weeded out of their heads and got some proper nurturing in my classroom.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the quote is trying to discredit the teachers. It is just referring to the invention of kindergarten as an institution. As a homeschooler, I do not have problems with public school teachers, It is the institution and who it is regulated by.
ReplyDelete-Starfish