Excerpt from Froebel's Educational Laws for All Teachers While Schelling laid great stress on art and litera ture, inasmuch as the aesthetic unity of mind and matter seemed to him to reach its highest point in sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, Froebel, in this respect, clings closer to the doctrines of Fichte, which make the striving of the human will to realize the good of far more importance than the creation Of the beautiful. This accbunts for the great stress which Froebel lays upon natural objects as the symbols of the mind. He does much to construct a scale Of symbolic terms up which the mind of the child shall mount on its way to clear thinking. All of the categories Of pure thought are used in the mind of the child, but not in their purity - they are incarnated or embodied in symbols or men tal pictures, and it is the function Of the sciences of arithmetic, geometry, grammar and logic, ethics and philosophy, to strip off the sensuous form in which these deep ideas first appear in the mind of the child, and give him ability to use them as tools of thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.