irst means used in awakening and
developing the dawning consciousness and growing faculties of
the child.

_b._ The beginning must be well made, or no later step will
seem clear.

_c._ If the first opportunity which occurs of dealing with
the gift (or with any instrumentality of education) is
wasted, interest on the part of the child is permanently
lessened.

_d._ The mind retains clear impressions in proportion to the
degree of spontaneous interest and attention with which they
are received.

_e._ The law of diminishing interest decrees that each point
in a successful exercise shall be more interesting than the
previous one.

_f._ The lessons must not be confined to so narrow a channel
that they become monotonous, and they must leave room for the
child to develop and not attempt to prescribe his mental
action.

Tiedemann says: "Liberty of action even in imitated actions is one of
the conditions of a child's happiness; besides that, it has the effect
of exercising and developing all his faculties. Example is the first
tutor, and liberty the second, in the order of evolution; but the
second is the better one, for it has inclination for its assistant."

READINGS FOR THE STUDENT.

From Cradle to School. _Bertha Meyer_. Pages 118-20.
Education. _Herbert Spencer_. 128-40.
Kindergarten Culture. _W. N. Hailmann_. 41-46.
Education. _E. Seguin_. 7, 8.
The Kindergarten. _Emily Shirreff_. 10.
Kindergarten at Home. _Emily Shirreff_. 46.
Reminiscences of Froebel. _Von Marenholtz-Buelow_. 208, 209.
Lectures on Child-Culture. _W. N. Hailmann_. 24.
Kindergarten Guide. _J._ and _B. Ronge_. 1-3.
Koehler's Kindergarten Practice. Tr. by _Mary Gurney_. 5-12.
Child-Culture. _Henry Barnard_. 567, 568, 570-75.
Education of Man. _Fr. Froebel_. Tr. by _J. Jarvis_. 105, 106, 206.
Lectures to Kindergartners. _E. P. Peabody_. 30, 31, 38, 39, 44-51.
Pedagogics of the Kindergarten. _Fr. Froebel_. Tr. by _J. Jarvis_.
31-69.
Paradise of Childhood. _Edward Wiebe_. 7-9.
Law of Childhood. _W. N. Hailmann_. 31-33.
Kindergarten Guide. _Kraus-Boelte_. 1-15.
Froebel and Education by Self-Activity. _H. Courthope Bowen_.
136-38.
Childhood's Poetry and Studies. _E. Marwedel_. Part I. 7-15.
Childhood's Poetry and Studies. _E. Marwedel_. Part II. 6-17.
A System of Child-Culture. _E. Marwedel_. 1-5.
The Dawn of History