"The kindergartens have a most important place in the settlement," said Miss Addams. "They serve to give the children of foreign parents a start so that they may enter the schools on a plane nearer that of English-speaking children. It gives the poor children a look at the brighter side of life, and kindergarten methods prove to them that work and study are not drudgery.
"The kindergarten gives the children who have spent life upon the street or in dismal tenement-house quarters a glimpse of life that is more like that of a good home. It gives them music and art, which they appreciate, and it places them under good influence at an age when they are too young for the school but old enough to be learning bad habits."
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