Fröbeln.

1875 Jrnl. Women's Educ. Union 3 31 Frobel Society for the Promotion of the Kindergarten System.—An Association has been formed with the object of promoting..Kindergarten work.

1876 E. Shirreff Kinder-garten v. 40 It is..an object of the Fröbel method to hinder the ripening of the reasoning and critical faculty without corresponding practical activity.

1881 H. Barnard (title) Papers on Froebel's Kindergarten.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 90/2 The central organizing body for Froebel education in England is the National Froebel Foundation.

1969 L. C. Schiller in M. Ash Who are Progressives Now? 154 In the middle of the [nineteenth] century a new influence arrived in England, the Froebel Kindergarten.

1969 L. C. Schiller in M. Ash Who are Progressives Now? 155 In Froebel Colleges..the principles and practice of Friedrich Froebel were expounded.

1873 Jrnl. Women's Educ. Union 1 144/2 Those who are interested in the Froebelian system of education will be glad to know that the Ecole Normale..will be re~opened in September.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 794/1 The uncle and nephew [sc. F.W.A. and Karl Froebel] differed so widely that the new ‘Froebelians’ were the enemies of the old.

1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence I. iii. 171 Froebelian influence in manual training reaches through the eight school years.

1958 Observer 23 Feb. 8/4 If anything distinguishes Montessori from the Froebelians..it is the fact that she stands definitely for work and not for play.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 795/1 The late Joseph Payne advocated Froebelism in a pamphlet, Froebel and the Kindergarten System.