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Page 4 - This all-controlling law is necessarily based on an all-pervading, energetic, living, self-conscious, and hence eternal Unity.
Page 217 - The Practical Conduct of Play" may be used in connection with " Education Through Play " but it is in no way dependent on the preceding book. This book presents examples of work already done in the playground movement and gives detailed directions for the construction and management of playgrounds. Froebel's Kindergarten Principles Critically Examined BY WILLIAM HEARD KILPATRICK, PH.D. Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Education, Teachers College Columbia University Cloth...
Page 202 - The charge is, that he has used immoderate and cruel correction. Correction, in itself, is not cruel; children, being not reasonable, can be governed only by fear. To impress this fear is therefore one of the first duties of those who have the care of children. It is the duty of a parent; and has never been thought inconsistent with parental tenderness. It is the duty of a master, who is in his highest exaltation when he is loco parentis.
Page 101 - I am convinced that the exalted and often ecstatic delight of children in their simple movement plays is by no means to be explained through the exertion of mere physical force — more bodily activity.
Page 187 - Parents and school-teachers should remember this, and the latter should, at least once a week, take a walk with each class — not driving them out like a flock of sheep, nor leading them out like a company of soldiers, but going with them as a father with his sons or a brother with his brothers, and acquainting them more fully with whatever the season or nature offers them (see § 98).