"The school of tomorrow will be a garden city of children;
that is to say a place of many shelters - a township, if you will, of
small schools built as one community but with every shelter organised as
a separate unit... It is also a self-contained unit or school home; it
has its own Head; it also has its own bathroom, its own equipment, and
its own day, adapted to the needs of children at a specific stage of
development (Margaret McMillan, 1928).
Margaret's vision for early childcare that was to liberate children from the cramped slum-conditions of industrial London.
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Here, her first nursery in Deptford, London,1928 - a simple rudimentary building with a garden where the children could move and play freely and appreciate the beauty of nature. A building not so dissimilar to the ones used for childcare in New Zealand today...
Via Kindergarten Architecture by Mark Dudek.
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