A question about the history of kindergarten was answered that they didn't begin until 1964--totally wrong--they started decades earlier. But it was voted "best" answer. A friend said it's people deliberately distributing misinformation to support their wacko ideas (that kindergarten is a commie plot).
TorxBit
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Becasue this is a social stite and peoples opinions weigh more then fact. In fact the sites quoted are often wrong or misleading.
Just becase it is on a website does not make it true. And just becase it is on a well known website (I will pick on wikipedia), does not make it true either. Even scientific fact is often challenenged and later found out to be false.
As for when kindergardenstarted look at Goethe's teachings and the Prussian school system. You are correct, it predates 1964 by more then a century.
Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever
Read the bottom of the YA pages:
"Yahoo! does not evaluate or guarantee the accuracy of any Yahoo! Answers content."
This is a public access site where everybody and ANYbody can and does answer. Best Answers are chosen by the asker (with personal prejudice) OR by voters (with their own agendas, usually just getting points for voting). Nothing was EVER said about accuracy or truth on this site.
Maybe, out of the answers given, that WAS the best of the list.
By the way, in the US, it was not decades before -- it was over a century before:
http://www.doj.state.wi.us/kidspage/fun_facts/kindergarten.htm
"Margarethe Meyer Schurz started the first kindergarten in the United States in Watertown in 1856. "
And even earlier in other parts of the world:
http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Ke-Me/Kindergarten.html
"In 1837 Froebel opened the first kindergarten in Blankenburg, Germany. "
Anonymous
Sometimes it's deliberate, and then other times the person who asked the question may not know the information is incorrect. We are told from the very beginning that Y!A can not guarantee the validity of all answers. And sometimes the information given is well intended. Y!A has no control over what answers are given, or chosen (or voted) as Best Answer.
Blue Haired Old Lady
Perhaps the asker picked best answer - and picked the answer they agreed with rather than the factual answer which may not have supported their wacko theory. YA doesn't check the accuracy of the answers. It is a public forum. People can say almost anything.
Also - maybe the asker and answerer lived in a state that did not have kindergarden until 1964. I lived in quite a few places growing up, and not all of them had kindergarden.
Red
Because it's a site mainly populated by 13 year olds trying to get numbers for the Jonas brothers and cheating on their homework, I really seriously doubt the integrity of their answers are a priority to this lot.
"A friend said it's people deliberately distributing misinformation to support their wacko ideas"
Well that sounds like a 'wacko idea' itself...