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Title: Froebel's Gifts

Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Nora Archibald Smith

Release Date: January 27, 2010 [EBook #31097]

Language: English

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The Republic of Childhood

FROEBEL'S GIFTS

BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH

THE
REPUBLIC OF CHILDHOOD

BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
AND
NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH

I
_FROEBEL'S GIFTS_

The Republic of Childhood

_The Kindergarten is the free republic of childhood._--FROEBEL

FROEBEL'S GIFTS

BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
AND
NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH

The true teacher is a student of human
nature, and the student of human nature
is the pupil of God.--HORATIO STEBBINS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895

Copyright, 1895,
BY KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS
AND
NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.

PREFACE

The three little v