commends that the child's geometrical
education should begin as early as possible; in the
kindergarten, if he attends a kindergarten, or if not, in the
primary school. He should at first gain familiarity through
the senses with simple geometrical figures and forms, plane
and solid; should handle, draw, measure, and model them; and
should gradually learn some of their simpler properties and
relations."--_Report of Committee of Ten_, page 110.

LIFE FORMS.

We can now be quite methodical and workman-like in our building, and
can learn to use all the parts economically and according to
principle. We can discuss ground plans, cellars, foundations,
basements, roofs, eaves, chimneys, entrances, and windows, and thus
can make almost habitable dwellings and miniature models of larger
objects.[50]

[50] "The child's life moves from the house and its
living-rooms, through kitchen and cellar, through yard and
garden, to the wider space and activity of street and market,
and this expansion of life is clearly reflected in the order
and development of his productions."--Froebel's _Pedagogics_,
page 221.

The child is a real carpenter now, and innocently happy in his labor.
Who can doubt that in these cheerful daily avocations he becomes in
love with industry and perseverance, and as character is nothing but
crystallized habit, he gets a decided bias in these directions which
affects him for many a year afterward.[51]

[51] "In some German kindergartens large building-logs are
supplied in one corner of the play garden. These logs are a
foot or more in length, three inches wide, and one inch
thick. Several hundred of these are kept neatly piled against
the fence, and the children are expected to leave them in
good order. This bit of voluntary discipline has its good
uses on the playground, and the free building allowed with
this larger material gives rise to individual effort, and
tests the power of the children in a way which makes the
later, more organized work at the tables far more full of
meaning."--_Kindergarten Magazine_, November, 1894.

Objects which he meets in his daily walks are to be constructed, and
also objects with which he is not so familiar,[52] so that by pleasant
conversation the realm of his knowledge may be extended, and the
sphere of his affections and fancies enlarged; for these exercises
when properly con