NEGRO NURSING

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 185, 3 May 1933, Page 5

NEGRO NURSING

Visit of Ngav Zealander A DESCRIPTIVE LETTER At a recent meeting of the AVellington Free Kindergarten Council very interesting letters were received from Aliss Edna Scott. Aliss Scott stated: “This mouth I spent a very happy morning at a negro kindergarten and nursery school in Harlem It was held in a church hall in the poorer part of the district, the teachers and nurses being graduates of Columbia, and doing, I thought, u. wonderful piece of work, carrying out the progressive and new methods under great difficulties. “The first week in March I finished up my classes at. the Child Study Association. and did a little visiting to community centres, where I was able to make contact; with the various parents. The third week I spent in interviewing peojde at. Hie National Health Council. and Hie National Council of Parent. Education. Botli societies have been very good to me. and have given me very valuable literature upon their work. . . . “The last week in Alarcb I spent in Boston, Massachusetts. They have one particularly tine nursery school and kindergarten, and as a training centre for students it is recognised as one of Hie best in the States. Miss Elliot, the principal, is a graduate of Harvard, and has worked witli Aliss AlcAlillan and Miss Grace Owen.

“At Yale 1 had to see Dr. Gessell. He lias written a number of books ou the pre-school child, and conducts a most interesting child guidance clinic and nursery school attached to the university. . . , Professors Dewey and Kilpatrick both say ’without Hie kindergartens and tlie nursery schools ideal education would be impossible.’”