American Decades
"Why Should the Kindergarten Be Incorporated as an Integral Part of the Public School System?"
Journal article
By: Philander P. Claxton
Date: 1913
Source: Claxton, Philander P. "Why Should the Kindergarten Be Incorporated as an Integral Part of the Public School System?" Journal of Proceedings and Addresses, National Education Association, 1913, 426–427.
About the Author: Philander P. Claxton (1862–1957), a graduate of the University of Tennessee and the Johns Hopkins University, was United States commissioner of education from 1911 to 1921. He had also been a teacher, superintendent, normal school instructor, and head of the Department of Education at the University of Tennessee. Claxton was president of Austin Peay Normal School from 1930 until his retirement in 1946.
Introduction
Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, was the originator of the kindergarten, and he founded the first one in 1837. Froebel was influenced by the philosophy of the...
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