2. Early Life
• Born in Oberweissbach,Germany on April 21st 1782.
• His mother died at a year old, which made him receive
an “evil” stepmother.
• During this time he was left to do things on his own
and was educated by anthesis.
• At the age of 10, his Uncle with a large family took
him in. His Uncle raised him from then on to work.
But Frobel always had a dream of going to the
University
3. Education
• He attended the University in
Jana but never received a
degree.
• He later got a job at the
model Pestalozzi school.
• The head of the school,
Mr. Gruner, just wanted
people who could teach
his methods.
4. • Froebel applied to be at the
school and was accepted. He
was sent to Yverdon,
Switzerland to learn the ways
of the school.
• He came back to Frankfurt and
made his classroom the center
of the whole school.
5. • Because Frobel had no degree
officials sent him out of the
school and he was left with
the only option to go to war.
• With his return came the birth
of an idea.
6. The Birth of
Kindergarten
• The first Kindergarten opened
in 1836, in Bad Blankenburg,
Thuringa, Germany.
• His philosophy was the a
child’s education should
start 100 years before he/she
was born.
7. Kindergarten
• He used songs, poems, games,
and “gifts” to teach the
children in his schools.
• The “gifts” would change by
grade level and would promote
the learning concepts that
they were supposed to learn by
that grade
9. Publications
• Froebel went on to spread the word
about his, Kindergarten. He wrote
many books about his philosophies.
These include:
• The Education of Man
• The Pedagogics of
Kindergarten
• Education by Development
10. Founder of PTA
• He also included Mothers in
his school which was the start
of the PTA we see now. Then
they were called “school-
mothers” and they were a club,
just as they are now, that
helped out the school.
11. Froebel’s Death &
Kindergartens Future
• Froebel took his
last breath on
June 21st, 1852.
• Kindergarten was
then closed to be
free and was sent
underground and
into homes.
•Before his death, he sent
the idea to the United
States as early as 1836
because it was most
culturally appropriate
because of its freedoms.
•Kindergarten is now what it
is based on the ideas of
Friedrich Froebel.
