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Kindergärtner
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of kindergartner (“person who teaches at a kindergarten”). alt-of, alternative
"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."
- 2 Alternative spelling of kindergartner (“person who teaches at a kindergarten”). alt-of, alternative
"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."
- 3 Nonstandard form of kindergartner (“child who attends a kindergarten”). alt-of, nonstandard
"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."
- 4 Nonstandard spelling of kindergartner (“child who attends a kindergarten”). alt-of, nonstandard
"It’s like chasing a couple of kindergärtners around."
Etymology
From German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”). The other sense is not used in German.
From German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”). The other sense is not used in German.
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