| 词汇 | kindergarten |
| 词源 | kindergarten. That young children should be taught accord- ing to their natural instincts, by stimulating and creating inter- est, is an accepted view today in educational circles. But when Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782–1852) put such ideas into practice in the world’s first kindergarten (“children’s gar- den”), which he founded in Blankenburg, Germany in 1837, his “Froebel teaching methods” met with wide disapproval. The German schoolmaster and former forester nevertheless re- mained convinced that preschool education was essential, devoting his life to establishing kindergartens and training teachers for them. Pleasant surroundings, the use of play, the study of nature, and the importance of the family were stressed in these schools. Froebel’s The Education of Man (1826) set forth his views, which were strongly influenced by an unhappy childhood both at home and in school. |
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