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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![MAN IN EARLIEST CHILDHOOD. holj books relate it. Similarly, in eacli child tbere is repeated at a later period the deed which marks the beginning of moral and human emancipation, of the dawn of reason—essentially the same deed that marked, rr and, inasmuch as the raoe was destined for freedom, must mark, the moral and human emancipation, the. dawn of reason in the race as a whole, Everj human being who is attentive to bis own de- velopment maj thus recognize and study in himself the history of the development of the race to the point it may have reached, or to any fixed point. For this pur- pose he should view his own life and that of others at all its stages as a continuous whole, developing in ac- cordance with divine laws. Only in this way can man reach an understanding of history, of the history of human development as well as of himself, the history and phenomena, the events of his own development, the history of his own heart, of his own feelings and thoughts; only in this way can he learn to understand others ; only in this way can parents hope to understand their child (see § 16). [Of course, this is to be taken in a general sense. FroebeFs idea is not that each human being must imitate the various phases of human development from savagery to present civilization, and labori- ously Wade through the grossness, ignorance, and wickedness of past generations to the refinement, culture, and good-will of our day. FroebeFs thought is, rather, that the various instincts and tenden- cies of life are developed in each human being in the same general Order in which we find them developed in humanity as a whole. This is amply illustrated in the pages of this work, and needs no ad- ditional elucidation. (See also note, g IG.)—TrJ] § 25. To make the internal external, and the exter- nal internal, to find the unity for both, this is the gen-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28129076_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
