Highlights Froebel's ideas on areas such as math, language, art, and science education, and provides a bibliography of his writings on the kindergarten movement and on teacher training. Discusses these ideas in the context of the controversial journal "Child Life." Provides a brief history of the journal. (JW)

Froebel's major projects at Keilhau and Blankenburg were radically dissimilar. A mistaken conflation of the two emerged in Britain that was less suited to public child welfare than to private education, and this contributed to an apartheid between early child care and child education, whereas Germany developed the Blankenburg project with an…