This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...to speak chiefly to Kinder-Garten teachers, who would like to become acquainted with one of Frobel's books, which is not easy to translate into English, and which is really not translatable into any language but that of a mother's sweet conversation and loving tones to her darling child. A mother will understand the substance of this book; a mere critic or casual observer will not. For mothers Frobel has written it; from mothers he has learnt what he has written; and therefore it might be asked, "What have others to do with it?" It was, however, to women that Frobel has given his charge, when he addressed the meeting on that memorable day, June 24th, 1840, in Blankenburg (a small town in the principality of Schwarzburg Rudolstadt, Thiiringen, Germany), from which place and date the Kinder-Garten may be said to have originated. All women may act as universal mothers; in all kinds of relationships they must manifest a motherly spirit; and from this no teacher must exempt herself--least of all, a KinderGarten teacher. The book, therefore, of which we speak to-night, addresses itself to all who take charge of children, and thus represent the mother. What does it mean when a mother brings you a child into the Kinder-Garten? I understand it thus: "I bring you my child; take care of it as /would do;" or, "Do with my child what it is right to do;" or, "Do with it better than I am able." A silent agreement is made between the parents and you, the teacher; the child is passed from hand to hand, from heart to heart: what else can you do but be a mother to the little one, for the hour, morning, or day, when you have the sacred charge of a young soul? In hope and trust the child is brought to you, and you have to show yourself worthy of the confidence...

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