On physical education, and its place in a rational system of education : A lecture / by Concordia Löfving.

  • Löfving, Concordia.
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[1882]
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    permitting them to move about as much as possible out of doors, so that the little human plants may get their necessary share of God’s sunshine. Though Frobel used ready-made gifts for his Kindergarten, in order that there should always be some object of inspection to start from, it was never his intention that these should entirely take the place of natural objects of observation. When the faculty of perception in the child has developed into discrimination, so that it distinguishes differences in form, and size, and colour, then its imitative and reproductive powers may be gradually called into action, and it can be made to try and reproduce objects by drawing or by modelling, in the way which is being done in every good Kindergarten. The writing should first begin years afterwards, when they have acquired some skill in drawing, and simultaneously with the first reading lessons. They should also gradually, and in a concrete manner, be initiated to che operations of arithmetic by counting objects at hand. Even in the Kindergarten system, however admir- able it is when well conducted, I think there is sometimes a tendency to give too little to the child’s imagination. The narrative should play a great role there, and the Kindergarten teacher should be a good story-teller, and take as much delight in telling tales as the children in hearing them. And the children should he gradually induced to tell over again the stories and fables they have heard, and repeat little poems, and sing little songs and hymns; this not only has a great influence on the development of their organs of voice and speech, and their faculty of language in general, hut the tales, the poetry, and the songs, develops imagination and