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Friedrich Frobel Biography

Friedrich Frobel

Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈaʊɡʊst ˈfʁøːbl̩] ( listen); 21 April 1782 – 21 June 1852) was a German pedagogue, a student of Pestalozzi who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. He created the concept of the "kindergarten" and coined the word, which soon entered the English language as well. He also developed the educational toys known as Froebel gifts.

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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 childs soul. ”• “Play is the highest level of child development. . . It gives. . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world. . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life. ”• “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.

Beautiful, Children, Flower, Inner, Level, Like

Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions. . . Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.

Children, Deeds, Growing Up, Hard Work, Rooted, Steer

The mind grows by self revelation. In play the child ascertains what he can do, discovers his possibilities of will and thought by exerting his power spontaneously. In work he follows a task prescribed for him by another, and doesn't reveal his own proclivities and inclinations; but another's. In play he reveals his own original power.

Children, Play, Prescribed, Proclivities, Self, Work

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.

Beautiful, Care, Children, Flower, Flowers

If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they must feel and know themselves to be one, not only with God and humanity, but also with nature.

Destiny, Development, Environmental, Humanity, Whole

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

Children, Language, Master, Masters, Words

To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas.

Communication, Developing, Ideas, Life, Strengthening, Things In Life

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.

Childhood, Children, Development, Expression, Play

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