Word: froebel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred years ago a German schoolmaster named Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel opened in Blankenburg the world's first kindergarten. Lonely, eccentric Friedrich Froebel, who had left school at a tender age to become a forester's apprentice because his teachers thought him a dunce, believed that children were "young plants needing to be nurtured carefully." In the garden of his private academy, which gave the kindergarten its name, Teacher Froebel supervised the play of his neighbors' children in a systematic manner, until his socialistic and irreligious leanings moved the Prussian authorities to close the school...
That broke Friedrich Froebel's heart, he died soon afterward. Last week fell not only the centenary of the kindergarten but Friedrich Froebel's birthday, and 750,000 restless U. S. kindergarteners had to sit still on their little red chairs long enough to hear his story...
...Commissioner of Education (1889-1907) saw kindergartens established in more than 400 U. S. municipal school systems. After Depression retrenchments in 52 cities, including Chicago, Commissioner John Ward Studebaker's U. S. Office of Education made the Froebel Centenary a happy birthday by reporting that kindergartens, with budgets, were on the upgrade, are now available to 30% of the nation's 5-year-olds...
...vault standards at the end of the Stadium track in some time, last Saturday gave its applause to a world-record-breaking performance when Keith Brown, Andover star, cleared the bar at 13 ft. 4 5-8 in. to shatter the schoolboy mark set in 1930 by Wonsowitz of Froebel High, Gary, Indiana...
...left the State school and set about thoroughly preparing herself for a life of scientific pedagogy. She enrolled at the University of Rome as a student of philosophy and experimental psychology. She read, talked to educational theoreticians, visited schools where "immobile children were nailed to their seats." From Friedrich Froebel she learned that education should come to the young as a result of self-activity. She found that Johann Pestalozzi held sense-perception to be the source of knowledge. In 1907 she was given the opportunity of putting her theoretical research to practical...