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FROEBEL WEB
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The leading English language online resource about Friedrich Froebel, creator of Kindergarten and designer of Froebel Gifts

Friedrich Froebel.
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Let us live for our children!

Let us not shun the labour needed to lay a foundation for life in the small, in the deep and in the united. The tree of life will surely blossom for us. The twigs will wind themselves into garlands; as the foliage will give us shade, so will the branches afford us fruit. Let us faithfully care for our children and soon will grow up around us a garden of God.
Let us loyally foster the children. Nothing in heaven or earth has such high promise, such abiding blessing. God loves his creatures, his human beings; he loves his children. We children of God, we human beings should therefore love our children as much! Let us show in life union, harmony and singleness of purpose and hence reveal the divine. Soon union, peace and joy will incline towards us and our children.
If you cannot already perceive in the individual the totality and unity, in the sprouting seed the blossom the fruit the plant, then you must have faith in the seed, the soil, the gardener and the whole, the harmony of life.

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. Secure online ordering of original Froebel Gifts

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........: Friedrich Froebel: His Life Times and Significance by Peter Weston; Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman, Kiyoshi Togashi (Photographer): available at Amazon.com; A Child's Work: Freedom and Guidance in Froebel's Educational Theory and Practice by Joachim Liebschner: available at Amazon.com

"A revival of academic interest in Froebel and kindergarten seems at present to be underway, assisted by easily accessible Internet sources." Peter Weston 2002
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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.
To Froebel belongs the credit for finding the true nature of play and regulating it to lead naturally into work.
The same spontaneity and joy, the same freedom and serenity that characterise the plays of childhood are realised in all human actiity.
"The gifts and occupations are the living connection which makes both play and work expressions of the same creative activity." W. N. Hailmann
"There is substantial value in the exercises of the Kindergarten, which pleasurably bring out the active powers of the children - their powers of observation, judgement, and invention - and make them at once apt in doing as well as learning." Professor Payne 1874

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Friedrich Froebel Fund ™

supports life long learning around the world

The purposes for which the Friedrich Froebel Fund was formed are as follows:: To educate individuals and groups thereof in the history of early childhood education, especially as embodied in the works of Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, founder of the Kindergarten, and his followers, as well as disseminate and train in his methodologies and philosophy, which was the basis for the first Kindergarten.
: To foster life long learning among people of all ages from infancy to the age of senior citizens.To foster and promote the arts, music, mathematics, civics, language learning, as well as other academic and artisitic endeavours among learners of all ages.
: To organise conferences, consultation meetings, workshops, seminars designed for sharing experiences, expertise and information from diverse experts in the fields dealt with by the organisation.; To exchange information, to network, and to interface among educational groups, schools, parents, and other areas of learning and teaching throughout the world, and to increase the productivity of links among learners, teachers and educational institutions.

Friedrich Froebel Fund acknowledges the generous support of The Froebel Gallery, New York and Froebel Web
Friedrich Froebel Fund is incorporated under Section 402 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. The office of the corporation is located in the County of Albany in the State of New York.

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