A Study of Child-nature: From the Kindergarten Standpoint |
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Page 163 - And little by little will come the realization that free-will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power to compel one's self to obey the laws of right, to do what ought to be done in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
Page 110 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible Some letter of that After-life to spell; And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered, "I Myself am Heaven and Hell.
Page 81 - Frobel's system helps at the same time to cultivate the power of concentration. And all work, too, all exercises which awaken the active powers which form the capacity for rendering loving services to fellow-creatures, will help to lay the groundwork of religion in the child. The awakening of love goes before that of faith : he who does not love cannot believe, for it is love that discovers to us the object or the being worthy of our faith. Loving self-surrender to what is higher than...
Page 14 - This is the mother, good and dear; This the father, with hearty cheer; This is the brother, stout and tall; This is the sister, who plays with her doll; And this is the baby, the pet of all. Behold the good family, great and small,' the child is led to personify his fingers and to regard them as a small but united family over which he has control." (257 a. 14). Miss Wiltse, who devotes a chapter of her little volume to "Fingersongs related to Family Life and the Imaginative Faculty...
Page 10 - We must cultivate women, who are the educators of the human race, else the new generation cannot accomplish its task.
Page 44 - Impressions, inclinations, appetites, which the child may have derived from his food, the turn it may have given to his senses, and even to his life as a whole...
Page 45 - ... life. And again, parents and nurses should ever remember, as underlying every precept in this direction, the following general principle : that simplicity and frugality in food and in other physical needs during the years of childhood enhance man's power of attaining happiness and vigor — true creativeness in every respect.
Page 45 - Who has not noticed in children, over-stimulated by spices and excess in food, appetites of a very low order, from which they can never again be freed — appetites which, even when they seem to have been suppressed, only slumber, and in times of opportunity return with greater power, threatening to rob man of all his dignity, and to force him away from his duty...
Page 10 - The destiny of nations lies far more in the hands of women— the mothers— than in the possessors of power, or of those innovators who for the most part do not understand themselves.
Page 118 - He simply is burned — the natural consequence of his own deed; and the fire quietly glows on, regardless of the pain which he is suffering. If again he transgresses the law, again he is burned as quietly as before, with no expostulation, threat, or warning. He quickly learns the lesson and avoids the fire thereafter, bearing no grudge against it.