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Froebel and the kindergarten movement
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Western education in the 19th century > The early reform movement: the new educational philosophers > Froebel and the kindergarten movement
Next to Pestalozzi, perhaps the most gifted of early 19th-century educators was Froebel, the founder of the kindergarten movement and a theorist on the importance of constructive play and self-activity in early childhood. He was an intensely religious man who tended toward pantheism and has been called a nature mystic. Throughout his life he achieved very little…
