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School disguised as a garden, where children are the crops and naptime is a feature.
means The first year of formal schooling, for roughly five-year-olds, blending play with early learning.
from Coined in 1840 by German educator Friedrich Froebel as Kindergarten, literally garden of children, imagining kids as plants needing careful tending to bloom.
Banned oncePrussia outlawed kindergartens in 1851 as too radical.
Loanword intactEnglish borrowed the German spelling whole, umlaut-free.
Froebel giftsHe designed structured play blocks called gifts.