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Education of Man,
BY
FRJEDRICH FROEBEL.
TRANSLATED BY JOSEPHINE JARVIS.
NEW YORK:
A. LOVELL & COMPANY.
1885.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by
JOSEPHINE JARVIS, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington,
J. S. CusHiNG & Co., Pkinteks, Boston.
COJ^TEJSTTS.
PART I.
PAGE.
Foundation of the Whole. (Sec. 1 to Sec. 23) 1
PART II.
Man in the Period of his Earliest Childhood. (Sec. 24 to
Sec. 44) 24
PART III.
Man as a Boy. (Sec. 45 to Sec. 55) 57
PART IV.
Man as a Scholar:
1. What is School? (Sec. 56 to Sec. 57) 79
2. What shall Schools Teach? (Sec. 58 to Sec. 59) 85
3. Concerning the Principal Groups of Instruction:
A. Concerning Religion and Religious Instruction. (Sec. 60 to
Sec. 61) 86
B. Concerning Physics and Mathematics. (Sec. 62 to Sec. 76). 94
c. Concerning Language and Instruction in Language. (Sec. 77
to Sec. 83) 138
D. Concerning Art and the Subjects of Art. (Sec. 84 to Sec. 85) 151
4. Concerning the Connection between School and Family, and
the Subjects of Instruction Conditioned by this Connection:
A. General Contemplation. (Sec. 86 to Sec. 87) 154
B. Particular Consideration of the Individual Subjects of Instruction: a. Vivification and Cultivation of the Religious Sense. (Sec. 88
to Sec. 89) 160
6. Respect for, Knowledge and Cultivation of…