Friedrich Froebel

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Friedrich Froebel

• Andrea, Mikeal, Jamie

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Who is Friedrich Froebel?

• 1782-1852
• Friedrich established the first kindergarten in
  Bad Blankenburg in 1837.
• He wanted to learn more about how kids think
  when they played with certain objects like
  blocks, clay, and sand.
• He was a German man who got children interested
  to learn about nature by focusing on plants.

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Facts

• Froebels mom died when he was 9 months old.
• He was the youngest of his 5 brothers.
• He studied languages and science at Gottingen
  University.

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More Facts

• Friedrich learned about plants and natural
  phenomena and also started to study math at the
  same time.
• He brought education to America.
• He published his first book The Education of
  Man in 1826.

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Essential Learning Qualities

• Artistic Imaginative
• Linguistic Arithmetical
• Musical Aesthetic
• Scientific Physical
• Social Moral
• Cultural Spiritual
• Growth Harmonious

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Quotes

• Children are like tiny flowers they are varied
  and need care, but each is beautiful alone and
  glorious when seen in the community of peers.
• Play is the highest expression of human
  development in childhood for it alone is the free
  expression of what is in a childs soul.
• A child who plays and works thoroughly, with
  perseverance, until physical fatigue forbids will
  surely be a thorough, determined person, capable
  of self-sacrifice.

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Timeline

• 1797- Froebel moved to a little town named
  Hirschberg to learn about forestry, geometry,
  land surveying and valuation.
• 1804- Froebel studies Architecture at Frankfurt
  University
• 1805- Froebel began to teach in Anton Gruners
  school at Frankfurt

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• 1811- Froebel studies at the University of
  Gottingen
• 1818- Froebel married Henriette Wilhelmine
  Hoffmeister.
• 1831- Froebel invited to Switzerland to open
  schools and stays for five years

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Friedrich Froebel Child Life

• Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm August Frobel, the
  sixth and youngest child of Pastor Johann Jacob
  Frobel in Oberweißbach near Rudolstadt His
  mother died nine months after his birth in
  February 1783.
• Friedrich's grandfather, Johannes Frobel, (died
  22 July 1738) was the gamekeeper/forester.
• Froebel attended the training institute run by
  John Pestalozzi at Yverdon. Froebel left the
  institution accepting the basic principles of
  Pestalozzi's theory permissive school
  atmosphere, emphasis on nature, and the object
  lesson. Froebel, however, was a strong idealist
  whose view of education was closely related to
  religion.

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Friedrich Froebel How He Died?

• Friedrich Froebel died at Marienthal in his bed
  on June 21, 1852.
• "As a child, Friedrich Froebel, the friend of
  children and the apostle of child-happiness, fell
  asleep. Without a struggle and without pain ended
  a life which never for a moment had had an
  egotistical thought but which had been entirely
  dedicated to mankind and childhood.

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Toys And Gifts Friedrich Froebel Made?
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Sources

• http//education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1999/Fr
  oebel-Friedrich-1782-1852.html
• http//www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/220593/F
  riedrich-Froebel
• http//www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/kin
  dergarten.htm