QOTD: Froebel Has Plenty to Say

This past Friday I turned my thesis in - more on that later! Although certainly a relief, I have a storehouse of quotations just waiting to be shared.

Friedrich Froebel has quite a few things to say about education, but here is a fascinating goal he had for his educational system:

“I desire to educate men whose feet shall stand on God’s earth, rooted fast in Nature, while their head towers up to heaven, and read its secrets with a steady gaze, whose heart shall embrace both heaven and earth, shall enjoy the life of earth and nature with all its wealth of forms, and at the same time shall recognize the purity and peace of heaven, that unites in its love God’s earth and God’s heaven.”

What a nose.