Aspects of child life and education / by G. Stanley Hall and some of his pupils; ed. by Theodate L. Smith, Ph.D.

  • Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley), 1844-1924.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Aspects of child life and education / by G. Stanley Hall and some of his pupils; ed. by Theodate L. Smith, Ph.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    are suggested as first steps to fill the gaps in the child's knowledge. The following table shows the relative number of children who knew four Bible stories and four of Grimm's favorite fairy tales. God ... Christ . . . Bible stories . Prayers and 1 Songs J Schneewittchen Rothkappchen Dornroschen. Aschenbrodel \ Average J Religious . . Fairy tales . Boys Girls Children from Families Children from Kinder- garten Children Children from alto- Refuges gether Per cent. Boys Per cent. Girls . 7827 . 6757 • 3743 5067 4217 I4S3 6927 5818 2727 5935 5355 2258 5704 5104 2979 6633 5648 2744 60.7 61.6 72. 39-3 384 28. • 5400 4647 5078 5613 4850 5041 53-7 46.6 . 2173 • 2427 . 563 3009 3664 1044 2436 2800 661 4387 4581 1871 2263 3025 808 2538 2967 773 41.9 39-8 35- 58.1 60.2 65. . 1784 2897 2182 3871 2032 2270 38. 61.9 . 5852 . 1734 3846 2654 SI38 2020 4790 3677 4659 2032 5021 3137 60.3 39-5 39-7 60.5 Thus girls excel in fairy tales and boys in religious con- cepts. As the opportunities to learn both would not proba- bly differ much, there seems here a difference of disposition. God and Christ were better learned at home, and the tales best in the kindergarten. Rothkappchen was better known than God, and Schneewittchen than Christ. More boys could repeat sentences said to them, or sing musical phrases sung to them, or sing a song, than girls. Kindergarten children come from the richer, refuge children from the poorer, class, while parents between these extremes occupy themselves most with their children. The better off the parents, the stiller and less imitative the child, is a law suggested by the statistics of abilities. Not only method but choice and arrangement of the material of instruction depend on the knowledge the