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Karl Rosenkranz. Pedagogics as a System
Pedagogics as a System
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INTRODUCTION
THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION
A PARAPHRASE OF DR. KARL ROSENKRANZ'S. PAEDAGOGIK ALS SYSTEM. BY ANNA C. BRACKETT
ST. LOUIS: G. I. JONES AND COMPANY. 1878. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by. WILLIAM T. HARRIS, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE
THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
ERRATA
FIRST DIVISION
AN OUTLINE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
BY WM. T. HARRIS [TO BE USED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO PARAGRAPHS 81 TO 102 OF ROSENKRANZ'S PEDAGOGICS.]
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Karl Rosenkranz
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—Plato, as is known, calls the feeling with which knowledge must begin, wonder; but this can serve as a beginning only, for wonder itself can only express the tension between the subject and the object at their first encounter—a tension which would be impossible if they were not in themselves identical. Children have a longing for the far-off, the strange, and the wonderful, as if they hoped to find in these an explanation of themselves. They want the object to be a genuine object. That to which they are accustomed, which they see around them every day, seems to have no longer any objective energy for them; but an alarm of fire, banditti life, wild animals, gray old ruins, the robin's songs, and far-off happy islands, &c.—everything high-colored and dazzling—leads them irresistibly on. The necessity of the mind's making itself foreign to itself is that which makes children prefer to hear of the adventurous journeys of Sinbad than news of their own city or the history of their nation, and in youth this same necessity manifests itself in their desire of travelling.—
§ 25. This activity of the mind in allowing itself to be absorbed, and consciously so, in an object with the purpose of making it his own, or of producing it, is Work. But when the mind gives itself up to its objects as chance may present them or through arbitrariness, careless as to whether they have any result, such activity is Play. Work is laid out for the pupil by his teacher by authority, but in his play he is left to himself.
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