Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782-1852) was a Germaneducationalist. He was the founder of the concept of kindergarten in 1837. One of his educational tools, (popularly known as Froebels blocks or cubes) included geometric blocks that could be assembled in various combinations to form three dimensional compositions. Famous AmericanarchitectFrank Lloyd Wright has self admittedly been influenced a lot through playing with the Froebel blocks.
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But Froebel's allowance of money was very small, and his skill in the management of money was never great, so his university career ended in an imprisonment of nine weeks for a debt of thirty shillings.
Froebel, whose mind delighted in harmonizing apparent contradictions, and who taught that "all progress lay through opposites to their reconciliation," maintained that the child belonged both to the family and to society, and he would therefore have children spend some hours of the day in a common life and in well-organized common employments.
Hauschmann's Friedrich Frbbel is a lengthy and unsatisfactory biography.
FriedrichWilhelmAugustFroebel, 1782-1852, German educator and founder of the kindergarten system.
However, Froebel was unable to control constant disputes among his subordinates, and after a group of former associates accused him of propagating treason, the government issued an edict (1851) forbidding the establishment of kindergartens.
Froebel was influenced greatly by the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and FriedrichWilhelm Schelling.
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