11. Accustom the child to develop figures or forms by slight changes rather than by rudely destroying each single one preparatory to constructing another. From learning to be strictly methodical in his actions, he will become so in his later reasoning.
12. "Let the child, if possible, correct his own mistakes, and do not constantly interfere with his work. Whatever he is able to do for himself, no one should do for him."
Koehler.
FROEBEL'S THIRD GIFT
"All children have the building instinct, and 'to make a house' is a universal form of unguided play."
"It is not a mere pastime, but a key with which to open the outer world, and a means of awakening the inner world."
"This gift includes in itself more outward manifoldness, and, at the same time, makes the inward manifoldness yet more perceptible and manifest."
"The plaything shows also the ultimate type of structures put together by human hand which stand in their substantiality around the child."