The education of man / by Friedrich Froebel ; translated from the German and annotated by W. N. Hailmann.
- Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852. Menschenerziehung. English
- Date:
- 1906
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The education of man / by Friedrich Froebel ; translated from the German and annotated by W. N. Hailmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CONTROLLING LAW. clearly manifest in the beariug and conduct of tlie edu- cator and teaclier, and often ürmly and sternly empha- sized by liim. The child, the pupi], has a very keen feeling, a very clear apprelieusion, and rarely fails to distiuguish, whether what the edncator, the teacherj or the father says or requests is personal or arbitrary, or whether it is expressed by him as a general law and ne- cessitv. § 14. This obedience, this trustful yielding to an unchangeable third principle to which pupil and teacher are equally subject, should appear even in the smallest details of every demand of the edncator and teacher. Hence, the general formula of instruction is: Do this and ohserve what follows in this particular case from thy action, and to what hnowledge it leads thee. Simi- larly, the precept for life in general and for every one^^^jj^bAr»« is: Exhihit Üm^sjpiritual essence^thy life, in the:^^^^ external, and hy means of the externdl in thy actions, *'■ and ohserve the reguirements of thy inner heing and its nature. Jesus himself charges man in and with this precept to acknowledge the divinity of his mission and of his inner life, as well as the truth of his teachino-; and this is, therefore, the precept that opens the way to the knowledge of all life in its origin and nature, as well as of all truth (see § 23). This explains and , justifies, too, the next require- ment, and indicates, at the saine time, the manner of its fulfillment: The educator, the teacher, should mähe the fndividual and particular general, the general ptar- ticular and individual, and elucidate hoth in life ’ he should make the extemal internal, and the inteimal ex-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28129076_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
