The Gardener of Children

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'Froebel wanted the kindergarten to stimulate the family to appreciation and love for the child. The kindergarten was to be an extension of the family, a new but small work for the child to begin community with his age group and for his first gentle taste of independence. In the years before kindergarten and throughout the child's life, Froebel taught that family and home play the central role.

Froebel's appreciation for the interconnectedness of all nature is taking shape in the environmental movement today.'