Essays on the Kindergarten, Being a Selection of Lectures Read Before the London Froebel SocietyS. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Company, 1887 - 149 pagina's |
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Pagina 83 - ... remodeled and brought into accordance with it. And so it has been with the play of children. Its high significance had first to be discovered and made known before it could be embodied in a form corresponding to its object and to the degree of culture reached by civilized humanity. And even Frobel in the book in question has only taken the first step towards the attainment of this purpose, has done no more than point out in what manner it is possible. The filling up of gaps in the system, greater...
Pagina 12 - When the forces of nature have been fully conquered to man's use, when the means of production have been brought to perfection, when labor has been economized to the highest degree, when education has been so systematized that a preparation for the more essential activities may be made with comparative rapidity, and when, consequently, there is a great increase of spare time; then will the poetry, both of art and nature, rightly...
Pagina 12 - ... has been economized to the highest degree — when education has been so systematized that a preparation for the more essential activities may be made with comparative rapidity — and when, consequently, there is a great increase of spare time; then will the poetry, both of Art and Nature, rightly fill a large space in the minds of all.
Pagina 84 - Kindergarten teachers on his theory, and over and over again repeated : " I have here laid down the fundamental ideas of my educational theory; whoever has grasped the pivot idea of this book understands what I am aiming at. But how many do understand it ? Learned men have too great a contempt for the book to give it more than cursory attention ; and the majority of mothers only see in it an ordinary picture-book with little songs. No doubt there are finer pictures and better verses to be had than...
Pagina 83 - Genius gives utterance to its thoughts, which will in due time become embodied in appropriate forms. Frobel rightly calls this book a family book, for only by its use in the family, in the hands of mothers, can it fulfill its purpose, and. contribute towards raising the family to a level of human culture corresponding to the advanced civilization of the day, and preparing mothers for their vocation in the highest sense.
Pagina 84 - ... of young children, how to lead the young child, easily and naturally, into a consciousness of the "truths that sit sublime as directive power upon the throne of life; the truths of God, freedom, and immortality.
Pagina 50 - ... strong and prompt to do our will, that can run and walk in-doors and out of doors, and convey us from place to place as duty or pleasure calls us, not only -without fatigue, but with the feeling of cheerful energy ; we need strong arms that can cradle a healthy child and toss it crowing in the air, and backs that will not break under the burden of household cares, a frame that is not exhausted and weakened by the round of daily- duties. We...
Pagina 85 - Koselieder." The games introduced in this book are adapted both to cultivating the limbs and senses, and guiding and assisting the mind in its first awakening stage.* Gymnastic exercises have come to be regarded as essential to bodily health, and their use in later childhood and youth is consequently gaining more and more ground in the present day. But bodily discipline is essential also to the moral wellbeing of humanity. By developing muscular force the will...
Pagina 84 - ... after all ; he has found it out too ! " But at the same time he was fully aware that in his fundamental idea he had discovered a new point of departure which had been overlooked by all his predecessors. However much or little the nature of children may have been studied, no one has come up to Fröbel in his searching analysis of every phase and detail of their development.
Pagina 85 - TO MANKIND. THE child awakens to life in its mother's arms, its mother is, so to say, its own wider life. Without her care, without her looks of love, existence would offer a sorry prospect to the young new-comer. The mother must be her child's first mediator with the world and mankind. The physical union between mother and child, which still continues for some time after birth, becomes gradually loosened, and that first by the child learning to walk, which is the first stage of physical independence....