Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School (Classic Reprint)

A mong those who in the last twenty years have helped to spread a knowledge of the educational pnnciples of Froebel beyond the limits of his native country, Miss Elizabeth Peabody sname deserves to be specially remembered. It is mainly owing to her enthusiastic efforts that the value of the Kindergarten was early recognised in the United States, and that its first American promoters were encouraged to maintain, amid many difficulties, a standai dof real efficiency for the teachers of Froebel ssystem. Miss Peabody had long occupied herself, theoretically and pi actically, with educational subjects. Not satisfied by merely intellectual methods of instruction, and impatient othe spperficiality which was too often approved, se nia Seit lur cri-cat aim to train character, and, by a simultaneous dcv ))tn nt of childrens mental c:! (ir moral iiaiuic, (o prepare them for the iM .f life. It was not surprising that when Miy, li )1 ling such views of education, came in contact with the ideas and the work of Froebeljshe at once experienced the delight always attache Jtothe discovery that the problems exercising our own minds have been successfully solved by some one who has started from principles such as ouis, and who has cultivated the same ideal. She found that Froebel had carried into practice that very kind of training of which she had realized the immense importance, and that he had placed in a clear light truths which she had already more dimly perceived. Eager to inform herself about the new system. Miss Peabody travelled, in 1868, to Europe, on purpose to visit in Germany the Kindergartens established by Froebel, who was no longer living, and by his best pupils.
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