Froebel's

• He credited the simple wooden blocks from Friedrich Froebel's "gifts" with instilling an early love for geometry and space.

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North End of Boston, an enterprising and genial teacher has introduced one feature of Froebel's plan.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

We would merely add to this very clear, practical statement that encouragement of excessive competition, inside or outside the school, for any purpose whatsoever, is costly and damaging to the whole being, and that, in the opinion of the Committee, nothing needs to be impressed more strongly on parents and school-teachers than Froebel's injunction,

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Author of 'Mottoes and Commentaries of Froebel's Mother Play,' etc.

Mr. Edward Arnold's New and Popular Books, December, 1901 Edward [Editor] Arnold

Its present popularity seems in a way to be an outgrowth of the recognition of its educational value which was given impetus by the German pedagogues of Froebel's school.

How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

Froebel's Second Gift for children, adapted to the age from one to two or three years, with another little book of directions, has also been published by the same lady, and is perhaps a still greater boon to every nursery; for this is the age when many a child's temper is ruined, and the inclination of the twig wrongly bent, through sheer _want of resource and idea_, on the part of nurses and mothers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Froebel's verses, "The Little Girl and the Stars," are stated to be based upon the exclamation of the child when seeing two large stars close together in the heavens, "Father-Mother-Star," and a further instance of like nature is cited where the child applied the word

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

This it is which brings the child into harmony with the Divine love which speaks in all God's handiwork and brings him into that unity with God which is the mystery of Froebel's teaching.

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Referring to Froebel's games, Elizabeth Harrison remarks: --

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Froebel's canons, as interpreted by Miss Stone, took the ends of her fingers out from between her lips, where she had thrust them during the moment of her doubt, and raising her hand, said:

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