Class divisions elastic 54 Classical education 84 ——­ teaching 99 “Come let us live with them” 69 Comenius 103 Comet of 1811 86 Commission of 1810 80 Companionship 44 Comprehensiveness essential 80 Conditions of tutorship 66 Confinement in boyhood 6 Confirmation 22 Congress of teachers at Rudolstadt 142 ——­ at Gotha 142 ——­ at Salzungen 143 Construction essential to a child 77 “Continuation of the account of Keilhau” 141 Contradiction, life freed from 108 Cosmical development 89 Crisis at Yverdon 80 Croydon Kindergarten 143 Crystals a witness of life 112 Crystallography 89, 97 Culture, Froebel’s plan of 107 ——­ his own insufficient 109

Death of Froebel                                                 93, 143
——­ of his father                                                    38
——­ of his first wife                                               142
Development, analysis to synthesis                                   118
——­ of being, laws of                                               112
——­ vs. memorizing                                                  116
Devotes himself to study of education                                 98
Dewitz, Herr von                                         42, 43, 45, 140
Diary begun                                                           36
Diesterweg                                                           139
Divine worship at home                                             7, 10
Doreck, Miss                                                         144
Drawing, study of                                         28, 55, 61, 62
Dresden                                                     91, 142, 143
Duration of the world                                                 13

Earlier and later life compared                                       16