A Visit to German Schools (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Visit to German Schools

These and other similar considerations had pre pared me fully to accept the principle expounded in the lecture already alluded to - in which, too, I further developed frobel's notions respecting the spontaneous play and movements of the mind as the divinely appointed means for developing the powers of the child, and described the series of exercises which he devised for making play and self activity greatly fruitful in early education.

It occurred, however, to me, that it would be advisable, beforei lectured again on the subject, to give my full attention. To the theory of the Kinder garten, and to see something more of the practice - especially in those places, Hamburg, Berlin, &c., where it was most skilfully and correctly carried out.

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