FROEBEL'S TENTH GIFT
THE POINT
"The awakening mind of the child ... is led from the material body and its regular division to the contemplation of the surface, from this to the contemplation of the line and to the point made visible."
Friedrich Froebel.
"And it is precisely thus that the first artistic work of primeval man occurs; he begins by the forming of simple rows, as strings of beads, or of shells, for instance."
H. Poesche.
"For the last step in this analysis the child receives small lentil seeds or pebbles—concrete points, so to speak—with which he constructs the most wonderful pictures."
W. N. Hailmann.