Meaning of kindergartner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A child who attends a kindergarten.
2. A person who teaches at a kindergarten.
   rare
3. Alternative spelling of kindergartner (“person who teaches at a kindergarten”).
   alt-of, alternative
4. Nonstandard form of kindergartner (“child who attends a kindergarten”).
   alt-of, nonstandard
5. Nonstandard spelling of kindergartner (“child who attends a kindergarten”).
   alt-of, nonstandard

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Examples

“I partnered the older kids with my kindergartners and let⟳ everyone get⟳ a taste⟳ of teaching or learning from someone different.”

“All 50 states have⟳ had school immunization requirements since the beginning of the 1980s, with incoming kindergartners needing shots to protect⟳ against diseases including measles, polio and tetanus. No states require⟳ a Covid-19 vaccine for schoolchildren.”

“But the heart is generally larger than the creed, as was once strikingly evidenced to me by Louisa Frankenberg, a dear, devout old German kindergartner, who had learned the art of kindergartning [...]”

“[Jean-Jacques] Rousseau rightly insists that man’s education begins at his birth, and that what is acquired unconsciously far exceeds, in amount and importance, what is acquired consciously and through instruction.¹ […] ¹ This is a truth to which kindergærtners ought to give⟳ serious heed.”

“I am a kindergartner, teaching in the Harrington School, New Bedford, Mass., and am a reader of the “Kindergarten Primary Magazine.””

“The book that laid the groundwork for this new ideology was written by a German kindergartner who had emigrated to America in the late 1860s.”

“She went to New York City in 1872 to train⟳ under German kindergartner Maria Kraus-Boelte[.]”

“The Kindergärtners began their revolution by substituting objects for books in teaching, according to the express⟳ doctrine of [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau; but that is no evidence that they understood his philosophy. […] The Kindergärtner indiscriminately begins the teaching of forms, either with a cube alone, or with a cube and a ball, or with several cubes, without appearing to suspect⟳ the radical differences between exercises of comparison of the different parts of an object, and of two objects, and the exercises of combination of single objects to form⟳ a compound one. […] At this point⟳, the Kindergärtners fail⟳ to establish⟳ the link⟳ of continuity between the automatic and willed action, the perception and the idea, the instinct and the morality.”

“I fully believe⟳ myself that, though this foreign name⟳ [Kindergarten] has been temporarily adopted in England and America, neither this nor that of Kindergärtner (gardeners) for the teachers will be permanently employed.”

“Our standard-point is: One year’s training and a second year of practical work⟳ in a Kindergarten,—that makes the Kindergärtner if otherwise qualified for it. Learning by “apprenticeship” will never make⟳ a Kindergärtner, though it may be of infinite value to any girl. […] A good Kindergärtner should not only be a Kindergärtner, but at the same time a good teacher, thus verifying the saying: that a good Kindergärtner may become⟳ any day a teacher,—but not vice versa.”

“Young Kindergärtner, whose mathematical knowledge is at best very limited, must be carefully trained in this respect⟳, for they do not easily understand⟳ the philosophy of it, and thus expose the system to be misjudged by the physicians, who know⟳ better of what the little brain is yet capable without injury. […] If Kindergärtner will confine themselves to making children see⟳ things with their own⟳ eyes and judge⟳ and compare⟳ them with their own⟳ minds without any attempts at abstractions, they will gradually see⟳ them generalize for themselves even in words; […]”

“For the rest⟳, the brain of our little Kindergärtner was being engrossed with the business of getting knowledge, and, as a result⟳ of this fancy, was being taken in hand by sober understanding and drilled to the useful and necessary task of discovering truth.”

“[He] accepted a cigar from one of his timid admirers. They followed him like⟳ Kindergärtner as he pointedly moved away from the Owl before allowing someone to light⟳ him up.”

“Hey, Jimbo, does it really makes sense⟳ to use⟳ slowed clocks that are asynchronous, along with contracted rulers? Even Kindergärtners know⟳ better than to use⟳ warped tools.”

“Father shrugged and sighed like⟳ Mrs. Owl when explaining something to a dim-witted Kindergärtner.”

“A few years ago Miss⟳ Blow⟳, of St. Louis, took up, with the kindergärtners of that city, a study⟳ of “The Mother Play⟳ and Nursery Songs” in the German.”

“Six churches have⟳ been built, and we now have⟳ about 800 communicants and three men studying for the priesthood; four kindergärtner are now in training and hundreds of children are receiving Christian instruction.”

“It is another to maintain⟳ that the expertise needed to decide⟳ how best to run⟳ kindergartens in terms of what goes on within their walls is to be found among those who have⟳ never ventured inside them. The justification of the enlistment of the layman as kindergärtner would require⟳ a denial that there is indeed a relevant expertise in this area and a corresponding redefinition of the area of competence that makes an adept of any naturally shrewd human being.”

“It’s like⟳ chasing a couple of kindergärtners around.”

“The Kindergarten School had been dismantled, and our kindergärtners benefited by receiving the playground equipment. […] Kindergärtners and first graders were expected to learn⟳ the names of as many states as possible.”

“This year’s batch of four-year-old kindergärtners on the school van I drive⟳ have⟳ an overwhelming case of ants in their pants. […] I have⟳ a new four-year-old kindergärtner who recently rode with me for the first time. […] One of my kindergärtners was quite upset⟳ when I picked her up one day because hadn’t had time to brush her teeth after eating lunch.”

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