ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the development of education in Kuwait with special emphasis on the kindergarten as a reflection of the “revolutionary” socio-economic changes taking place in this part of Arabia. Kuwait is bounded on the south and south west by the Neutral Zone and Saudi Arabia, and on the north and north west by Iraq. The Neutral Zone has been administered jointly by the governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia since 1922. The settlers discovered in this region a supply of fresh water for their flocks, and appear to have made this region their place of summer encampment while wandering in the hinterland when the pastures were green in spring. Al-Subah were the settlers to abandon their tents for houses on the coast and they built what became later the town of Kuwait. The higher earnings enabled many of the nationals and non-Kuwaiti residents to spend part of the summer on holidays in countries of more moderate climate.
