Is Kindgarten a Good Thing?
Definition:
Kindergarten, from German. Kinder - Children; Garten - Garden.
Often English speakers will misspell the word as kindergarden, and often assume that it is the correct spelling. While it is not the correct literal spelling, perhaps it should be the correct spelling for it's modern day usage, and people will associate it with what it really is. As the root of the word shows, it's a garden for children. One could look at this as a loving place to nurture children, but it also the very beginning of indoctrination in a system of beliefs that have very little to do with personal growth, and everything to do with growing to meet standards set by others.
There is a lot of controversy of the successes or failures of the public schooling system in America, and the growing number of parents who choose to home school their children. It may be surprising, or perhaps not as there is nothing new under the Sun, that the same debates about the public education system have previously occurred.
Kindergarten was actually banned in Prussia, and most
German states in 1851, and wasn't allowed again for almost 60 years,
and even then there was restrictions.
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