Froebel was born in Thuringia, Germany on April 2 1782. His father is a devout priest and has five children. Froebel is his youngest child. Foucault's mother died nine months after his birth. His father is in charge of six or seven churches independently, so the responsibility of taking care of wrobel falls on his brothers, sisters and servants. When he was four years old, his father had a second wife, and his stepmother liked him very much. This period of time is the happiest day of his life. But soon her stepmother gave birth to a boy, and Froebel's life changed, and her stepmother began to treat him as an outsider. In this case, Froebel suffered a great blow, and naturally, a deep "generation gap" was formed between him and his stepmother. Due to the change of environment and spiritual loneliness, he has formed an introverted personality and does not like to make friends, so his philosophical and ideological character can be said to be influenced by family and environment.
Therefore, in his contribution, 1837 opened a preschool class in Brandenburg, Germany, specifically for children aged 3-7. Part of the reason is his own experience and the influence of Comenius and Pestalozzi. He believes that family and mother play an important role in early education, and advocates that it is necessary to establish a public preschool education institution to make up for the shortage of family education. 1840, he officially named this school "Kindergarten".
In education, he advocates adapting to children's development, following children's nature and paying attention to children's self-activities. Teachers only provide conditions for children, do not interfere with children's activities, give full play to children's subjectivity and attach importance to various games. Froebel believes that "play is the highest stage of children's development" and "the purest and most sacred activity of people at this stage". He is the first educator in the history of education who has the important value of adult games and systematically brings game activities into the educational process. Moreover, in educational practice, Froebel has always attached importance to the study of games. He believes that games are a tool for children to know the world, so he made a set of teaching supplies for children and became a "gospel". It means "a gift from God". Its greatest value is that it can be an important tool to help children understand nature and its inherent laws.
Froebel's unique preschool education system had a wide and profound influence on the preschool education in the world from the second half of the 9th century to the beginning of the 20th century, so he was called "the father of preschool education".
Friedrich Wilhelm August Fr?bel (German: Friedrich William Augustus Te Vrede? Bel,1782 April 21-1852 June 2), a German educator, is recognized as one of the most important educators in Europe in the19th century. The originator of modern preschool education. He not only founded the first preschool education institution named "Kindergarten", but his educational thought still dominates the basic direction of preschool education theory. Froebel's educational thought and practice have had a far-reaching impact on the development of preschool education in all countries of the world.