rs of the day in a common life and in well-organized common
employments. These assemblies of children he would not call schools, for
the children in them ought not to be old enough for schooling. So he
invented the term _Kindergarten_, garden of children, and called the
superintendents "children's gardeners."--R.H. QUICK, in _Encyclopaedia
Britannica_, xix edition.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTORY 1, 2

LETTER TO THE DUKE OF MEININGEN 3-101

Birth and early life 3, 104

Enters the girls' school 9

Goes away from home to Stadt-Ihm 15

Is apprenticed to a forester 24

Returns to his father's house 27

Goes to the University of Jena 28, 105

Returns home again 35

Goes to Bamberg as clerk 33

Becomes land-surveyor 39

Goes to the Oberfalz as accountant 42

Soon after to Mecklenberg 42

Gets small inheritance from his uncle 43

Goes to Frankfurt 48, 107

Becomes teacher in the Model School 31, 109

Visits Pestalozzi 52

Resigns to become a private tutor 65, 110

Takes his three pupils to Yverdon 77

Returns to Frankfurt 84

Goes to the University of Goettingen 84, 111

Goes to Berlin 89, 111

Enters the army 91, 111, 120

Becomes curator in Berlin 96, 111, 121

Enlists in the army again 100, 121

SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS BY THE TRANSLATORS 102, 103

LETTER TO KRAUSE 104-125

Begins at Griesheim