Child and child-nature, contributions to the understanding of Fröbel's educational theories, tr. by A.M. Christie |
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x. oldal - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
x. oldal - Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term: Thence shall I pass, approved A man, for aye removed From the developed brute; a god though in the germ.
107. oldal - 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.
66. oldal - ... is striving to rise from the ashes of centuries ? It is not enough, that saving ideas should be carried about in the world; there must also be the necessary devotion, the good-will, the endurance, the power of self-sacrifice, to carry them out. The male genius of humanity begets the ideas of which each century has need ; the female genius has to work them out. The genius of mankind is two-sexed, but a long period has gone by during which the world has received its stamp from the male half only,...
159. oldal - consists in the development of their inner and higher life of feeling and of soul, from which springs all that is highest and holiest in the life of men and of mankind ; in short, the religious life, the life that is at one with God in feeling, in thought, and in action. When and where does this life begin ? It is as with the seeds in spring : they remain long hidden under the earth before they become outwardly visible.
172. oldal - And all work, too, all exercises which awaken the active powers which form the capacity for rendering loving services to fellow-creatures, will help to lay the groundwork of religion in the child. The awakening of love goes before that of faith : he who does not love cannot believe, for it is love that discovers to us the object or the being worthy of our faith. Loving self-surrender to what is higher than ourselves — to the Highest of all — is the beginning of faith. But love must show itself...
105. oldal - But over and over again we hear people exclaim after a superficial glance through the book : " What wretched poetry, what lame rhymes, what unintelligible illustrations, and, above all, what absurdity I the idea of regulating a mother's caressing and fondling...
102. oldal - The clearer the thread which runs through our lives backward — back to our childhood — the clearer will be our onward glance to the goal." Such continuity in education is as yet nowhere aimed at ; fathers and mothers, nurses and governesses, servants and friends, all influence the child in different, too often in quite opposite, directions. There is no such thing as transition in education — no point of connection...
185. oldal - ... through these alone can a natural basis of education be found. 7. The instincts of the child, as a being destined to become reasonable, express not only physical but also spiritual wants. Education has to satisfy both. 8. The development of the limbs by means of movement is the first that takes place, and, therefore, claims our first attention. 9. The natural form for the first exercise of the child's organs is play. Hence games which exercise the limbs constitute the beginning of education,...
184. oldal - As the beginning gives a bias to the whole after development, so the early beginnings of education are of most importance. 3. The spiritual and physical development do not go on separately in childhood, but the two are closely bound up with one another. 4. There is at first no perceptible development except in the physical organs, which are the instruments of the spirit. The earliest development of the soul proceeds simultaneously with, and by means of that of the physical organs. 5. Early education...