Excerpt from Hand Work Head Work: Their Relation to One Another, and the Reform of Education, According to the Principles of Froebel
The writer of an original book may feel a natural desire to explain to the public his reasons for disclosing to them his thoughts and opinions on any particular subject; but this done he has nothing more to say, and he must be prepared to stand to all the opinions he has published, and he must take upon himself the whole responsibility of his book for good or for evil.
With translation, however, it is a different matter. From responsibility, indeed, a translator cannot escape, especially when the book translated (as in the present case) deals with many of the widest and deepest problems of life; but as no two people ever agree entirely on all points, there must always be more 01 less divergence between the opinions of the author and translator of any book, and though the latter may fully agree with the general scope of the book he ii translating, and conscientiously desire its reproduction in other languages, there will always be more or less which he would have left unsaid, or said differently, had he been speaking from himself.
Other considerations, too, enter strongly into the question of a translation of the nature of the present one, the chief object of which is to promote the introduction into a foreign country of new educational theories. What was written originally for German readers, is not necessarily best suited, either in matter or form, to an English public: it might sometimes be that ideas which would most rally commend themselves to the German mind and character, would tend rather to prejudice English readers against the cause which it is hoped they will take up.
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