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  Friedrich established the first kindergarten in Bad Blankenburg in  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.

 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  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.

 Froebel’s mom died when he was 9 months old.  He was the youngest of his 5 brothers.  He studied languages and science at Gottingen University.

 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.

 Froebel moved to a little town named Hirschberg to learn about forestry, geometry, land surveying and valuation.  Froebel studies Architecture at Frankfurt University  Froebel began to teach in Anton Gruner’s school at Frankfurt

 Froebel studies at the University of Gottingen  Froebel married Henriette Wilhelmine Hoffmeister.  Froebel invited to Switzerland to open schools and stays for five years

 Friedrich Froebel died at Marienthal in his bed on June 21,  "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.“

 “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 child’s 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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