Category: Philosophy & Ethics
I. THE SCHOOL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 3 II. THE SCHOOL AND THE LIFE OF THE CHILD 31 III. WASTE IN EDUCATION 59 IV. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 87 V. FROEBEL’S EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES 111 VI. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OCCUPATIONS 131 VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATTENTION 141 VIII. TH...
I. THE SCHOOL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 3 II. THE SCHOOL AND THE LIFE OF THE CHILD 31 III. WASTE IN EDUCATION 59 IV. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 87 V. FROEBEL’S EDUCATIONAL...
2. Part 2The unity of all the sciences is found in geography. The significance of geography is that it presents the earth as the enduring home of the occupations of man. The world withou...
3. Part 3If we take an example from an ideal home, where the parent is intelligent enough to recognize what is best for the child, and is able to supply what is needed, we find the child...
4. Part 4If I had not taken so much time in my other illustrations, I should like to show how, beginning with very simple material things, the children are led on to larger fields of inv...
5. Part 5The next chart (III) is an enlargement of the second. The school building has swelled out, so to speak, the surrounding environment remaining the same, the home, the garden and...
6. Part 6Studies of childhood have made it equally apparent that this socially acquired inheritance operates in the individual only under present social stimuli. Nature must indeed furni...
7. Part 7The third period of elementary education is upon the borderland of secondary. It comes when the child has a sufficient acquaintance of a fairly direct sort with various forms of...
8. Part 8The fundamental point in the psychology of an occupation is that it maintains a balance between the intellectual and the practical phases of experience. As an occupation it is a...
9. Part 9It is hardly too much to say that in the traditional education so much stress has been laid upon the presentation to the child of ready-made material (books, object-lessons, tea...