NORTH CAROLINA
Journal of Education.
Vol. I.
GREENSBORO, N. C.. NOVEMBER, 1897.
Number 4.
COME LET US LIVE WITH OUR CHILDREN
Play is the highest phase of child develop¬
ment ; for it is self-active representation of the
inner life and thought.
To he wise is the highest aim of man, is the
most exalted achievement of human self-deter¬
mination.
The child, the boy, man, indeed, should
know no other endeavor but to be at every stage
of development wholly what this stage calls for.
Even as the child, every human being should be
viewed and trusted as a necessary, essentialmem
her of humanity; and therefore, parents are, as
guardians, responsible to God, to the child and
to humanitv.
God creates and works productively in unin¬
terrupted continuity. * * * God created
man in his own image; therefore, man should
create and bring forth like God.
Education should lead and guide man to
clearness concerning himself and in himself, to
peace with nature, and to unity with God;hence,
it should lift him to a knowledge of himself and
of mankind, to a knowledge of God and of na¬
ture, and to the pure and holy life to which
such knowledge leads.
The educator, the teacher, should make the
individual and particular general, the general
particular and individual, and elucidate both in
life; he should make the external internal, and
the internal external, and indicate the necessary
unity of both: he should consider the finite in
the light of the infinite, and the infinite in the
light of the finite, and harmonize both in life:
he should see and perceive the divine essence
Friedftch Wilhelm August Frofbel,
(Born April 2!. 1793. Died June 21. 1S5: >
The Discoverer of the
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in whatever is human, trace the nature of man to
God, and seek to exhibit both united in life.
God neither ingrafts nor inoculates. He de¬
velops the most trivial and imperfect things in
continuously ascending series and in accordance
with eternal self-grounded and self-developing
laws. And God-likeness is and ought to be
man's highest aim in thought and deed, espe¬
cially when he stands in the fatherly relation to
his children, as God does to man.
Man. as a child, resembles the flower on the
plant, the blosssom on the tree; as these are in
relation to the tree, so is the child in relation to
humanity — a young bud, a fresh blossom; and
as such, bears, includes and proclaims the cease¬
less reappearance of new human life.
