e thought education was a development and not an acquirement.

One of Pestalozzi's little pamphlets fell into the hands of Friedrich
Froebel, architect's assistant, at Frankfort.

Froebel was twenty-two years old, and Fate had tossed him around from
one thing to another since babyhood. All of his experiences had been of
a kind that prepared his mind for the theories that Pestalozzi
expressed.

Besides that, architecture had begun to pall upon him. "Those who can,
do; those who can't, teach." This was said in derision, but it holds a
grain of truth.

Froebel had a great desire to teach. Now, in Frankfort there was a Model
School or a school for teachers, of which one Herr Gruner was master.
This school was actually carrying out some of the practical methods
suggested by Pestalozzi. Quite by accident Gruner and Froebel met.
Gruner wanted a teacher who could teach by the Pestalozzi methods.
Froebel straightway applied to Herr Gruner for the position. He was
accepted as a combination janitor and instructor and worked for his
board and ten marks, or two and a half dollars a week.

The good-cheer and enthusiasm of Froebel won Gruner's heart. Together
they discussed Pestalozzi and his works, read all that he had written,
and opened up a correspondence with the great man. This led to an
invitation that Froebel should visit him at his farm-school, near
Yverdon, in Switzerland.

Gruner supplied Froebel the necessary money to replace his very seedy
clothes for something better, and the young man started away. It was a
walk of more than two hundred miles, but youth and enthusiasm count such
a tramp as an enjoyable trifle. Froebel wore his seedy clothes and
carried his good ones, and so he appeared before the master spick and
span.

Pestalozzi was sixty years old at this time, and his hopes for the "new
method" were still high. He had met opposition, ridicule and
indifference, and had spent most of his little fortune in the fight, but
he was still at it and resolved to die in the harness.

Froebel was not disappointed in Pestalozzi, and certainly Pestalozzi was
delighted and a bit amused at the earnestness of the young man.
Pestalozzi was working in a very economical way, but all the place
lacked Froebel, in his exuberant imagination, made good.

Froebel found much, for he had brought much with him.

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Froebel returned to Frankfort from his visit to Pestalozzi, full of
enthusiasm