Education of Man

From Froebel, F. W. A. (1887). The Education of Man (W. N. Hailmann, Trans.). New York: D. 
Appleton and Company. (Original work published 1826). 

Child
play and speech are elements in which child lives
man is developed in plays of childhood 
Boy
family life: true essence of humanity is individualized in father, mother and child
child tries to represent what he sees his parents do
when he was doing before for the sake of activity, now he is doing for the sake of result
he will help the parent, and parent should let him help
this is the age when everything seems easy, and he wants more adventures, e.g. climbing a tree
discovery age: his own power, his own material and his own space
now the play seeks representation, its aim lies now in a definite, conscious purpose
Froebel found the kindergarten, the social nursery of the child
 -an ideal society if equals which the child may enter at the very moment when his social instincts enter consciousness
 -he considers group works - building blocks, sand, etc