The Republic of Childhood - Volume 1 Author:Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... FROEBEL'S GIFTS THOUGHTS ON THE GIFTS OF FROEBEL "A Correct comprehension of external, material things is a preliminary to a just comp... more »rehension of intellectual relations." Fbiedbich Fboebel. "The A, B, C of things must precede the A, B, C of words, and give to the words (abstractions) their true foundations. It is because these foundations fail so often in the present time that there are so few men who think independently and express skillfully their inborn divine ideas." Fbiedbich Fboebel. "Perception is the beginning and the preliminary condition for thinking. One's own perceptions awaken one's own conceptions, and these awaken one's own thinking in later stages of development. Let us have no precocity, but natural, that is consecutive, development." Fbiedbich Fboebel. "Every child brings with him into the world the natural disposition to see correctly what is before him, or, in other words, the truth. If tilings are shown to him in their connection, his soul perceives them thus as a conception. But if, as often happens, things are brought before his mind singly, or piecemeal, and in fragments, then the natural disposition to see correctly is perverted to the opposite, and the healthy mind is perplexed." Fbiedbich Fboebel. "The linking together which is everywhere seen, and which holds the Universe in its wholeness and unity, the eye receives, and thereby receives the representation, but without understanding it except as an impression and an image. But these first impressions are the root.fibres for the understanding that is developed later." Fbiedbich Fboebel. "The correct perception is a preparation for correct knowing and thinking." Fbiedbich Fboebel. "No new subject of instruction should come to the scholar, of which he does not at least conjectu...« less