Enlightened Educators

(1782-1852)

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was born in 1782 in Germany . He coined the term "Kindergarten" or Children’s Garden to convey the impression of an environment in which children grow freely just like plants grow freely in a garden.Froebel noticed that young children take their play very seriously . It is not mere amusement , it is a form of self - expression for them .He devised geometrical playthings like cylinders , stabs, etc. and activities like folding and weaving. School , for Froebel, was not an establishment for the acquisition of a greater or lesser variety of external knowledge . He thought children were instructed in things they do not need . School instead should be a place to which the pupil comes to know " inner relationship of things" ,"Things" ; meaning God , man , nature and their unity.

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Sylvia Ashton

{{I see the mind of a five - year old as a volcano with two vents : destructiveness and creativeness.}}

Mahatma Gandhi

A great leader and philosopher , Mahatma Gandhi , was born on 2^nd October 1869. He proposed the concept of basic education ,which was designed to rescue education from its bookish and purely verbal content. He believed that the community should be the centre of all activity and that education must help in the development of the heart and the mind . He emphasized that all subjects in school must be taught in correlation with some manual productive craft . The craft should be the central activity around which all subjects should be correlated.