The fate of the people is not so much in the hands of those in power as in the hands of their mothers. Therefore, we must strive to enlighten the Mother, the great educator of mankind. - Froebel
Family life is incomparably important during every period of a child's growth, and no, throughout a person's entire life. - "The Education of Man"
Froebel, a famous early childhood educator in Germany and even Europe in the 19th century, founded the world's first kindergarten, known as the "father of early childhood education", which has a profound impact on young children or preschool education in Germany and even the world, and his representative work "Human Education".
Grandpa Fu's educational thought is based on his adherence to "theism of all things", which has religious overtones, but to some extent has a transcendent religious meaning.
He believes that God created man, and all things in the world are unified in the spirit of God, so education should develop human potential to stimulate its own creativity, and should know God by knowing nature and understanding human nature;
He believed that human nature is constantly evolving, so man must constantly develop in order to better understand God. Education should promote human development, education should conform to nature and conform to the nature of children.
Kindergartens are places where families are assisted in nurturing young children, cultivating children's moral, intellectual, and physical aspects of initial development to prepare for primary education, because qualified kindergarten teachers are important.
For the method of early childhood education, he advocates that children's self-activity, through games, activities, social cooperation and other ways of early childhood education, suggests a curriculum system centered on activities and games, which is consistent with his theoretical basis that human nature is good, conforming to children's nature and conforming to nature. He also created a set of teaching tools, gifts, that is, simple objects modeled on the shape of nature, etc., similar to building blocks.
He believes that early childhood education can play a role in the transition of environment and thinking, preparing for the smooth entry into primary school.
Grandpa Fu's concept of family education is still very popular today. In today's society, family education is becoming more and more important, and has become an indispensable role in the three-legged establishment with school education and social education, especially now that the parents' generation are mostly highly educated intellectuals with a very strong sense of parenting. But some of the family education problems that arise from this, the parents are involuted, the lack of parental education knowledge leads to the sometimes inability to do so in parenting; parenting is an art, not like a product can be mass-produced, so the same method, the same concept for different children, the effect is different or even diametrically opposite, because the children we are facing are energetic and complex people, so we need to constantly learn and summarize.
For kindergarten education, the concept of kindergarten and excellent teachers I think is very important, the earlier, the more important the role of the environment and teacher guidance.