Category: Parenthood & Family Relations
WHAT is a Kindergarten? I will reply by negatives. It is not the old-fashioned infant-school. That was a narrow institution, comparatively; the object being (I do not speak of Pestalozzi's own, but that which we have had in this country and in England) to take the children of...
MY DEAR ANNA,--If you wish to know the practical difficulties that arise out of my desire to inculcate self-government, and to keep my own out of sight as much as possible, I wi...
17. LETTER III.MY DEAR ANNA,--Let me introduce you to my little family. It consists of twenty children, some of whom have been under my care for three years. These latter are eight in number,...
11. letter i sounded as in _ink_ 240 times, to one that it sounded as in_bind_; and though the proportion was not quite so great with any other vowel, yet there was a large majority for the Roman sound, in each instance, as well as for the hard soun...
21. LETTER VII.MY DEAR ANNA,--I am somewhat reconciled to your being in a less independent situation than I wished for you, by learning that you are, after all, in a school-room of your own, s...
15. LETTER I.MY DEAR ANNA,--I had heard of your intention of keeping school before you wrote to me, and had rejoiced for the good cause as only one can do who knows your peculiar qualificati...
18. LETTER IV.DEAR A.,--When I have a collection of children around me to whom I am to teach things and morals, I always begin by making a simple statement of the footing on which I wish we s...
16. LETTER II.MY DEAR ANNA,--I will begin by telling you that I can do the thing better than I can describe it. You must let me tell you stories out of my school-room to illustrate the wisdom...
6. CHAPTER VI.Childish play has all the main characteristics of art, inasmuch as it is the endeavor to "conform the shows of things to the desires of the mind,"--Bacon's definition of poetry....
1. CHAPTER I.WHAT is a Kindergarten? I will reply by negatives. It is not the old-fashioned infant-school. That was a narrow institution, comparatively; the object being (I do not speak of P...
5. CHAPTER V.The first Kindergartner was Froebel himself; who, in the course of a long life, studied into the science of childhood, and worked out a series of artistical exercises, which aim...
20. LETTER VI.DEAR ANNA,--I have just heard that you think of changing your original plan, and becoming a governess. At the risk of being impertinent, I must give you the warning of experienc...
3. CHAPTER III.THE first requisite to the Kindergarten is Music. The voice of melody commands the will of the child, or rather disarms the caprice, which is the principle of disorder. Two hymn...
4. CHAPTER IV.IN playing THE PIGEON-HOUSE, the teacher, who should always play with the children, takes three quarters of the number, and forms them into a circle, while the other quarter rem...
8. CHAPTER VIII.I NOW come to Object Lessons, which should begin simultaneously with all the above exercises; for mental exercises are not only compatible with physical health, but necessary to...
9. CHAPTER IX.REV. DR. HILL, the present President of Harvard College, in his articles in Dr. Barnard's "Journal of Education," has set forth the importance of Geometry in the earliest educat...
10. CHAPTER X.THIS art should be taught simultaneously with writing, or, more properly, printing; and I should certainly advise that it do not come till children are hard upon seven years old...
7. CHAPTER VII.HARMONIOUS development is Froebel's idea. Hence, although the physical should never be sacrificed, and comes first into view, in the scheme of Kindergarten culture, it is not to...
12. CHAPTER XII.MRS. MANN has suggested, in the last part of this volume, the first exercises in grammar. But grammar is the most abstract of sciences. There are at present few children sent to...
2. CHAPTER II.I HAVE made an article, which I published in the "Atlantic Monthly" of November, 1862, my first chapter, because I cannot, in any better way, answer the general question,--What...
14. CHAPTER XIV.IN the foregoing pages I have done what I can, to make a Kindergarten Guide; not only for the use of those who undertake the new education, but in order to give parents a defini...
13. CHAPTER XIII.MR. SHELDON, in his "Elementary Instruction," has shown the way in which we may begin to teach geography without books. To proceed in that way, up to the point of drawing all ma...