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Excerpt from Handwork and Its Place in Early Education
Experience has taught that restless and inquiring pupils need a variety Of forms of employment, hence an attempt has been made to indicate as many as possible of the simple arts and crafts open to them. Special emphasis is laid on the Gifts and Occupa tions of Froebel and on Dr. Dewey's experiments, because a thoughtful study of the work of these reformers cannot fail to be helpful and stimulating to any open-minded student. The introductory chapter is Obviously sketchy and incomplete, but it may help the student to begin to understand something Of the child's fundamental needs and then send her on to_ books which deal adequately with the subject. 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.
