Letters

Pauline Hauthal

Rosina Roos

Ottilie de Liagre

Letters to the Friend of Children and Humanity

Pauline Hauthal

writes a charming account of her son, Otto playing with the fourth gift

Rosina Roos

describes the acceptance of Kindergarten after initial concern about allowing children to play

Ottilie de Liagre

observes that Froebel's Method should empower children to be lively and free, but immature people can degrade it into a mechanical routine

translated by Johannes Froebel-Parker, from the German "Mein Lieber Herr Froebel!, Briefe an der Kinder und Menschenfreund"