Excerpt from Woman's Educational Mission: Being an Explanation of Frederick Fröbel's System of Infant Gardens<br><br>Amongst the various demands of the age for the improvement and renovation of our social relations and institutions, the great question of Popular Education has been forcing itself ever more and more into the foreground. A laudable zeal for the diffusion of knowledge may be observed on all sides, and men of science and learning have contributed, by a variety of popular works which of late years have issued from the press, to extend the views and assist the judgment of those who are especially appointed to direct the mental and mor'al culture of the rising generation. Innumer~ able have been the plans and systems elaborated, to train those, who are themselves to become in turn the directing agents in the great and complicated business of life.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.