these dissensions. He also tells many interesting incidents
connected with Pestalozzi and his school at Yverdon, p. 45.

[142] Should be eighty-one.

[143] 1827.

[144] "Educational Reformers," p. 183.

[145] "Encyklopaedisches Handbuch," Vol. V, p. 320.

[146] "In him the most interesting thing is _his life_."--QUICK.

[147] Not original with Pestalozzi,--see Port Royalists.

[148] For statement of his principles, see Compayre, p. 438; Williams,
p. 312; Kruesi, p. 169.

CHAPTER XXXIX

MODERN EDUCATORS (_Continued_)

FROEBEL (1782-1852)

=Literature.=--_Lange_, Collected Writings of F. Froebel; _Kriege_,
Friedrich Froebel; _Bowen_, Froebel and Education by Self-activity;
_Herford_, The Student's Froebel; _Froebel_, Education of Man; _Quick_,
Educational Reformers; _Munroe_, Educational Ideal; _Williams_, History
of Modern Education; _Marenholtz-Buelow_, Reminiscences of F. Froebel;
_Rein_, Encyklopaedisches Handbuch der Paedagogik.

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was born at Oberweisbach, a village in
the beautiful Thueringian Forest of Germany. The first ten years of his
life were spent at home under the instruction of his father, who was a
Lutheran clergyman and had six villages under his pastorate. The many
cares of his office prevented the pastor from giving his son much
attention, and as the stepmother neither understood the boy, nor took
much interest in him, he spent most of his time in the woods, with birds
and flowers as his companions, and received far less rudimentary
training than most boys of his age. But at the age of ten an important
change took place in his life. He went to live with his mother's
brother, who sent him to school for four years. Here he was taught the
elementary branches and a little Latin. He tells us of the profound
impression made upon him the first day of school by the text of
Scripture that the children repeated. It was, "Seek ye first the kingdom
of God." He says, "The verse made an impression on me like nothing
before or since. Indeed, this impression was so lively and deep, that
to-day every word lives fresh in my memory with the peculiar accent with
which it was spoken; and yet since that time nearly forty years have
elapsed." His progress in the school does not seem to have been very
great.

At fourteen he returned to his father's home, and soon thereafter was
apprenticed to a forester. Here he was entirely in his element, and he
tells of four aspects o