Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1914 — Household and Mental Order. [ARTICLE]

Household and Mental Order.

Froebel, “father of child-study.*’ Said that “Inward clearness proceeds from outward order,” and there is truth enough in the observation to give food for thought to the careless, untidy mother and father. Froebel’s saying was connected, no doubt, with his Insistence that the child’s play and work materials in the kindergarten should be take]} out in perfect order and so returned at the close of the exercises, and Dr. Montessori, the Italian educationist, whose method is working a change in the teaching of children, requires the same thing in her "Houses of Childhood.” There a potent influence in an orderly, punctual, wisely-administered household, and there is no question that children brought up iq such an atmosphere do show clearness in their mental processes. Fortunately this is an influence which is independent of riches or poverty and so can be exerted by any mother.