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Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was born on April 21, 1782, and died on June 21, 1852. He was the youngest of a number of brothers. His mother died when he was only a child and he was left with his father, who was a preacher. Johannes Froebel, his father, was the Lutheran pastor of his own church. They lived in a village named Oberweissbach.

Growing Up

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Becoming An Adult

The village were he lived became the place where Froebel would begin to feel a deep, mystical connection with nature, which influenced him for his entire life. He studied mineralogy in Jena and directed the stone and gem collection of Berlin's Humboldt University. He was unswerving in his conviction that all creatures and nature were inexplicably, yet completely and spiritually connected. This became the basis of philosophy of Universaler Einklang, or Universal Harmony.

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Education• He took in the children of his

deceased brothers. He prevailed the idea that children should be “seen and not heard” , even though his idea was incorrect. He thought that the children carried in them the seed of self-development, which encouraged adults.

KINDERGARTEN• Friedrich Froebel changed the

way we think about early childhood education. He designed balls, wooden blocks, tiles, sticks and rings to demonstrate that children learn by playing. Known around the world as the Froebel Gifts or Gaben, these objects were an important part of his Kindergarten. The Froebel Gifts have been widely imitated and adapted by educators and toys makers.

Bibliography

• http://www.froebelverein-keilhau.de/assets/images/db_images/db_froebel24.jpg

• www.ozpod.com/gallery/church.html

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