Excerpt from The Educational Ideas of Froebel

The literature about Froebel is already extensive, and most of Froebel sown writings are accessible to all. But they need some kind of introduction, and in this review of Froebel's chief works I have particularly devoted myself to those ideas of his which have proved most fruitful as well as to those which give the key to his characteristic way of looking at things.

Every man, however great his genius, is, after all, the product of his times and to some extent of his circumstances. It would be sheer waste of labour to study the ideas of a man like Froebel without at the same time trying to form as vivid a picture as possible of the circumstances amid which he tried to realise his ideas.

After some consideration, I came to the conclusion that a chronological order in treating Froebel's ideas was better than a logical one. In his life we have first the long preparation period, which may be said to have lasted up to the opening of his school at Keilhau in 1817; then his constructive period from 1817 to 1831, when he went to Switzerland, which produced his Education of Man and his plan for the "Helba Institution," as well as the earlier writings to which reference is made in the text; and lastly his Kindergarten period, in which he applied the principles laid down in his constructive period to the education of very young children.

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