ABSTRACT
The Kindergarten for children under six, conducted by Signora Quarati and her assistants, is the most perfect one I have ever seen; the large, airy class rooms, so clean and fresh, the little ones, so bright, clean and intelligent, give the assurance of both health and happiness, while the order and discipline maintained among them are convincing proofs of the possibility of training very young children to habits of prompt obedience, and of intelligent work suited to their awakening capacities. and that without in any degree lessening their happiness. On the contrary, in the hands of experienced and intelligent teachers, music, discipline, and companionship so train the children, that instead of tumbling about in confusion and noise, the sound of a few notes of one of their accustomed melodies seems at once to marshal them, of their own accord, into order for marching and for healthful, happy, and harmonious exercises of hands and feet. And this order in action very soon becomes habitual to the children, so that, at the word of the teacher, they are all ready for work, with deft and busy fingers, where music would be inadmissible. The specimens of their handiwork, which Mrs. Quarati can show, would astonish anyone, not familiar with Frobelian training.
