Inventing Kindergarten

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"This is a revelatory book. . . . The juxtaposition here of 19th-century kindergarten work with the work of Braque Klee Mondrian and Frank Lloyd Wright will make you gasp." The New Yorker Now in paperback this is the first comprehensive book about the original kindergarten a revolutionary educational program invented in the 1830s by German educator Friedrich Froebel. Using extraordinary visual material it reconstructs the most successful system ever devised for teaching young children about art design math and natural history. The book also includes a searching exploration of the origins of modern art in the early childhood experiences of some of its greatest creators.