Lupita Jimenez

 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.
 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.
 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.
 Friedrichlearned 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.
 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
Gruner’s school at Frankfurt
 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
 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.“
 “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.”
Artistic Imaginative
Linguistic Arithmetical
Musical Aesthetic
Scientific Physical
Social Moral
Cultural Spiritual
Growth Harmonious
 http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/
weekly/kindergarten.htm
 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/
220593/Friedrich-Froebel
 http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/
1999/Froebel-Friedrich-1782-1852.html