. The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . Jena felt the impulse of this new and Scbelling, too^ w(Te fUling the place withdiscussions of their idealistic philosophy, and in thenear-by city of Weimar lived the great leaders of thenew romanticism in literature. It is possible thatFroebel may havecome under the per-sonal influence ofGoethe and Schiller,and that this experi-ence enabled him, asone writer expressesit, to ^ participate inthe dominant thoughtlife of the age. Andthere has scarcelyever been a time and aplace where a g
. The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . Jena felt the impulse of this new and Scbelling, too^ w(Te fUling the place withdiscussions of their idealistic philosophy, and in thenear-by city of Weimar lived the great leaders of thenew romanticism in literature. It is possible thatFroebel may havecome under the per-sonal influence ofGoethe and Schiller,and that this experi-ence enabled him, asone writer expressesit, to ^ participate inthe dominant thoughtlife of the age. Andthere has scarcelyever been a time and aplace where a greaterthought life centered. However, his university career ended in disgrace —he lay more than two months in jail for a debt of lessthan ten dollars. The next four years he spent atvarious sorts of work, none of which satisfied 1805 he began the study of architecture at Frank-furt. Here he met Grtiner, director of a Pestaloz-zian model school. Through this man Froebel foundhimself, and realized that his life work was to be thatof an educator. He himself said : From the first I |\. Friedrich W. a. Froebel 96 THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL found something I had always longed for, but alwaysmissed; as if my life had at last discovered its nativeelement. I felt as happy as a fish in water. Froebelspent two years in Griiners school, after which hebecame private tutor to three boys. He secured theconsent of these boys parents to take them to Yverdon,where he taught them imder the guidance of Pesta-lozzi. This was a fruitful period in Froebels devel-opment. We find Froebel again at the age of nearly thirtyat the universities, this time at Gottingen and he enlisted in the Prussian army, and wentthrough the campaign of 1813 against the Napoleonicaggressions. But even as a soldier his mind was onhis teaching. His military experience showed himthe value of discipline and united action — a lessonthat we Americans have just relearned — and nodoubt helped him to count
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