Excerpt from The Kindergarten and the School
One book is published because something too good to be lost has been written; another because the fame of the author assures a good profit to both author and publisher; but this book has been deliberately planned, and the labor of the authors solicited, to meet a definite demand by progressive educators for a condensed volume giving the origin and progressive educators for a condensed volume giving the origin and progress of the kindergarten and its relation to school work. The following are a few of the points suggested by prominent educators as specially important to be covered:
"A clear, readable, and sensible biographical sketch of Friedrich Frobel."
"The theory of the kindergarten plainly set forth."
"The methods of the kindergarten in considerable but not tedious detail."
"The influence of the kindergarten in educational theories and methods; how it has influenced educational views and practices, and the share it has had in generating the movement known as the New Education."
"Ways and means of making kindergarten theories and methods available in public schools."
"To what extent and how can the kindergarten as a whole or in detached parts be made a part of our public school system?"
Frobel, unfortunately, had not the ability to express himself with clearness, even those familiar with the language in which he wrote often finding it difficult to get at his meaning, and translations of his writings have sometimes been made by those not in sympathy with the spirit of the wonderful man; so it is not strange that he is often misunderstood and his writings characterized as "cant."
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