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...Brooklyn, small Murray Folkoy, 6, was playing in the street as he had been told not to do. When the principal of the public school where Murray Folkoy attended kindergarten called him into her study on the third floor, Murray Folkoy was scared. He did not expect her to beat him, he did not even know whether she would speak severely or not. But he did know vaguely that whatever she said would break the gay delight he had discovered in going to kindergarten; it could never be so merry and beautiful again. Finally, miserable, full of an unexplainable despair...
...produced only at the time of bloom by the male organ in the flower. Would it not be of more importance to a journal like TIME, catering to people of some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy...
...newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge girls' school. She later taught kindergarten philosophy at a normal school, not retiring until 1924. Not only did she take no false vanity in the accident of her unblemished features, but besides preferring to the worldly career they might have brought her the career of service which she brought herself, she disliked talking about silver dollars...
...Intelligence Quotient). "Incalculable harm may be done by giving children paralyzing inferiority complexes." Another speech: Since the advent of the "junior high school" (seventh to tenth grades), the fourth and fifth grades have been a "dumping ground" for inferior teachers, the best teachers being concentrated in kindergarten work and in the new junior-high department...
Last week the National Kindergarten and Elementary College of Chicago published a tabulation of conversations recorded in 30 U. S. and Canadian kindergartens over a month's time. "I" was the word used most frequently, averaging 1,044 times; "the" was second, 616 times; "teacher" came eighth; "what," 13th; "mother," 24th; "father," 80th ("papa" appeared entirely obsolete). "Please" and "thank you" were almost unknown. City children knew fighting words and slang. The size of an average kindergartner vocabulary was not made public after this laborious study...