Kindergartens are named in honor of the common gardens with flowers Bashny.Net

In 1837, the German educator Friedrich Fёbel opened educational institution for small children where they can play, sing, dance and have important life skills, calling it Kindergarten, which means "kindergarten". Through this concept Fёbel would like to draw an analogy between such institutions and habitual gardens: the children have to take care and look after them as well as take care of the plants. Today preschools called kindergartens in many languages ​​of the world.

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