HERBERT SPENCER.

"If we consider it, we shall find that exhaustive observation is an
element of all great success."
HERBERT SPENCER.

"Learn to comprehend each thing in its entire history. This is the
maxim of science guided by the reason."
WM. T. HARRIS.

"Geometrical facts and conceptions are easier to a child than those of
arithmetic."
THOMAS HILL.

"Instruction must begin with actual inspection, not with verbal
descriptions of things. From such inspection it is that certain
knowledge comes. What is actually seen remains faster in the memory
than description or enumeration a hundred times as often repeated."
COMENIUS.

"Observation is the absolute basis of all knowledge. The first object,
then, in education, must be to lead the child to observe with
accuracy; the second, to express with correctness the results of his
observation."
PESTALOZZI.

"If in the external universe any one constructive principle can be
detected, it is the geometrical."
BULWER-LYTTON.

"The education of the senses neglected, all after-education partakes
of a drowsiness, a haziness, an insufficiency, which it is impossible
to cure."
LORD BACON.

"Of this thing be certain: Wouldst thou plant for eternity? Then plant
into the deep infinite faculties of man, his fantasy and heart.
Wouldst thou plant for year and day? Then plant into his shallow,
superficial faculties, his self-love, and arithmetical understanding,
what will grow there."
THOS. CARLYLE.

FROEBEL'S FIRST GIFT

"I wish to find the right forms for awakening the higher
senses of the child: what symbol does my ball offer to him?
That of unity."

"The ball connects the child with nature as much as the
universe connects man with God." FRIEDRICH FROEBEL.

"Line in nature is not found, Unit and Universe are round."

"Nature centres into balls." R. W. EMERSON.

"From thy hand
The worlds were cast; yet every leaflet claims