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THE BUILDING GIFTS 54
FROEBEL'S THIRD GIFT 57
FROEBEL'S FOURTH GIFT 76
FROEBEL'S FIFTH GIFT 89
FROEBEL'S SIXTH GIFT 112
FROEBEL'S SEVENTH GIFT 124
FROEBEL'S EIGHTH GIFT 142
FROEBEL'S NINTH GIFT 159
FROEBEL'S TENTH GIFT 175
GENERAL REMARKS ON THE GIFTS 189

FROEBEL'S GIFTS

THOUGHTS ON THE GIFTS OF FROEBEL

"A correct comprehension of external, material things is a preliminary
to a just comprehension of intellectual relations."
FRIEDRICH FROEBEL.

"The A, B, C of things must precede the A, B, C of words, and give to
the words (abstractions) their true foundations. It is because these
foundations fail so often in the present time that there are so few
men who think independently and express skillfully their inborn divine
ideas."
FRIEDRICH FROEBEL.

"Perception is the beginning and the preliminary condition for
thinking. One's own perceptions awaken one's own conceptions, and
these awaken one's own thinking in later stages of development. Let us
have no precocity, but natural, that is consecutive, development."
FRIEDRICH FROEBEL.

"Every child brings with him into the world the natural disposition to
see correctly what is before him, or, in other words, the truth. If
things are shown to him in their connection, his soul perceives them
thus as a conception. But if, as often happens, things are brought
before his mind singly, or piecemeal, and in fragments, then the
natural disposition to see correctly is perverted to the opposite, and
the healthy mind is perplexed."
FRIEDRICH FROEBEL.

"The linking together which is everywhere seen, and which holds the
Universe in its wholeness and unity, the eye receives, and thereby
receives the representation, but without understanding it except as an
impression and an image. But these first impressions are the
root-fibres for the understanding that is developed later."