ABSTRACT
Friedrich Froebel was born in a village in Thuringia, Germany, in 1782. When he was still a baby, his mother died, and he seems to have spent a somewhat lonely childhood, playing and walking in the countryside, until he reached the age of ten when he was sent to the village school where he was taught arithmetic and something about nature. His early home and school life appears to have made a deep impression upon Froebel, who loved everything related to the world of nature. He continued his country walks and observed everything in his environment—trees, plants, insects, pond-life and stones. This love of nature certainly affected his concept of education when he came to formulate it at a later date.
