Letters to a mother on the philosophy of Froebel (1899)
Blow, Susan E. (Susan Elizabeth), 1843-1916 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 273
to him.His dog knows his voice, his goat obeys bridle andwhip, his kitten enjoys caresses, and pigeons andsparrows fly to get the food he scatters for them.His experience is like that of Donatello, who spoke in a dialect broad as the sympathies of ITa-ture to the inarticulate brotherhood that prowl… … 250 THE DISCOVERY OP LIFE. 251 would lie quietly, as if knowing the toucli of afriend.* At an age when true companionsliip witli ma-ture human beings is impossible and the compan-ionship of child with child somewhat marred bymutual defect, the companionship of the child withthe mute creatures to…
Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 · Kindergarten
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