The Education of Karl Witte, or the Training of the Child

Description: Pastor Witte's account of the early home training of his son must unquestionably be regarded as one of the most inspiring and helpful contributions ever made to the literature of education. Nearly a hundred years have passed since it was written and it has dropped almost completely out of sight. The book is almost impossible to read, running to a thousand pages, being overly long and exhausting. It has been a necessary task to eliminate as far as possible the superfluous and beclouding material. Witte's fundamental principle - that the education of a child should begin with the dawning of the child's intelligence came into direct collision with the policy of waiting until the child reached school age. Parents who have since Witte's day made trial of the virtues of early home training have found their children growing in moral strength exactly in proportion as care has been taken to surround them with enlightening and ennobling influences. An hour a day is all that is necessary for formal instruction. What parents will have to do is regulate their whole lives for the indirect; the unconscious instruction. Teaching begins, but example accomplishes.

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Location: San Diego, California

End Time: 2024-10-14T21:54:22.000Z

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