The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-17

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minute;
What you can DO. Of dream you can,
begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic
in it.
Only engage and then the mind grows
heated;
Begin. and then the work will be com
pleted. Goethe.
Froebel. the originator OF the kin
gergarten idea. conceived that educa-
ton, as culture. has to DO with chill
dren as human plants. which are to be
surrounded with circumstances favor
able to their FREE development, and
to be trained BY means suited to their
nature. The purpose of the kindergar-
Ten is thus briefly indicated by him:
To assume supervision over chill
.dren before they are ready for school
life; to exert an influence over their
whole being in agreement with its ma
ture; to develop their physical powers;
to exercise their senses; to employ the
awakening mind; to make them thor
oughly acquainted with the world of
nature and of man; to guide their
heart and soul in right direction, and
lead them to understand the origin of
all life and to identify themselves with
il"
Through play, involving comrade-
ship and associated activity, he begins
to recognize moral relations, to feel
that he cannot live for himself alone,
that he is a member of community,
whose rights he must acknowledge and
respect if his own rights are to be ac-
knowledged and respected. In and
through play. moreover, he learns to
contrive means for securing his ends.
to invent, construct. discover. investi-
gate, to bring by imagination the re-.
mote near, and further, to translate the
LANGUAGE OF FACTS into the lam
guage of words. 8 : 3 The child, thru
the spontaneous activity of all his ma
tural forces, is really developing and
strengthening them for future use; he
IS. WORKING OUT HIS OWN EDU-
CATION.
"* $ From the insight | have thus
gained into their nature, | have learn
ed that as teacher must educate
them in conformity with that nature.
must CONTINUE, not supersede, the
course already begun. 8 8 Above all
else, | must not neutralize and deaden
that SPONTANETTY which is the
HANDSPRING Of the machinery"
What is true of the child is also true
Of human beings of all ages; we can
learn to know the facts of being only
through the exercise Of our own facul-
ties. Intelligent individual selfhood
cannot be developed in any other way.
Organized knowledge, Of material, con-
crete, objective facts or phenomena,
is called science. and it implies that
certain objective relations subsisting in
the nature of things, between facts or
phenomena, are subjectively apprehen-
ded or understood by the mind. The
perception and conception of the ma
tural relation of facts to each other,
and the comprehension of these rela-
lions under general laws or uniform
processes of manifestation, and the
organization Of these facts and laws in
TO one body, the parts of which are
seen to be subserv1ent to each other
that is science
Only what a learner acquires thru
his own observation of facts thru the
exercise of his own senses, and his own
reflection upon what he has observed
and apprehended, he may with just
right call his own knowledge.
The psychological meetings at Llano
Colony are held for the purpose that
the members may learn to understand
themselves and to understand each 9TH
er and to fully grasp the requirements
upon their attitude and self-directed,
co-ordinated activity that integral CO.
operation calls for. The most impor-
tant thing for anyone who joins the
Colony is to learn to think right from
the start, and for that purpose young
and old should attend the psychology
cal meetings. said Comrade Pickett on
Thursday night. June s. And Com
rade George D. Coleman said that Llano
Colony was in truth and fact revival
of primitive Christianity, which was an
economic and social undertaking and
not a sectarian one.
''It is only when people find pleas
ure in right actions, can they
be depended upon to perform them.
And it is by their early and habitual
performance that they will become
pleasant. In the formation of such So