The kindergarten building gifts . No. 55. Showing Curvilinear Giftas a whole. CURVILINEAR GIET. 201 must have concentric circles in order that by the rep-etition of the circular lines and surfaces and theirparts, the child may become familiar with them andtheir relation to the whole; but these halves and quar-ter circles must be logically derived, not thrust uponthe child. Not only must form be seen to evolve, buteach new experience of the child must be rooted insome past experience, if the experience is to befundamentally educational. It is true that a thou-. No. 56. Showing CurvUinear Gift d
The kindergarten building gifts . No. 55. Showing Curvilinear Giftas a whole. CURVILINEAR GIET. 201 must have concentric circles in order that by the rep-etition of the circular lines and surfaces and theirparts, the child may become familiar with them andtheir relation to the whole; but these halves and quar-ter circles must be logically derived, not thrust uponthe child. Not only must form be seen to evolve, buteach new experience of the child must be rooted insome past experience, if the experience is to befundamentally educational. It is true that a thou-. No. 56. Showing CurvUinear Gift divided vertically: (a) intoand lb) into quarters. sand and one haphazard sensations wall thrustthemselves upon the young child. If, however, wehave trained his mind to work systematically andlogically, he either fits these accidental sensationsinto the categories in which they belong, or dropsthem out of his consciousness; we must, therefore,expect the next new cylindrical Gifts to not onlyrepeat the curved line of a circle, but to divide thatcurved line into half and quarter rings, by theaxial planes passing through the entire cylinder.(See Figs. 56, 57 and 58.) The thickness in thiscase being uniform as in the case of the Sixth Gift. 202 THE KINDERGARTEN BUIEDING GlETS. It was for these reasons that the so-called CurvilinearGift described above, has been selected as the SecondGift in the series of Curvilinear Gifts. (See Fig. 56.)It will readily be seen that when this Gift is turnedinside out or its inner is outered that it makes a
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