Short biography of friedrich froebel

Froebel

from A Short History of Education 1904.

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was born at Oberweissbach, in Thuringia, in April, 1782. In his youth he was much neglected.

His mother he lost while very young. His father, although pastor of the village, took little care of him. The pastor having married again, young Froebel was taken care of by his late mother's brother, by whom he was sent to a village school.

Of an extremely intuitive and imaginative nature, wrapt in observation and thought, the boy had earned the reputation of a dunce, and was apprenticed to a forester in 1797. His open-air life was a training far better adapted to the development of a mind like his than the education of a school.

Friedrich froebel

For two years he lived among things. Every object of nature was to him a thing to study. All his knowledge was gained therefrom. The self-culture and natural training he received in the glades of the Thuringian forest formed the lasting groundwork of his life's work.

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