Educationalist and inventor of the kindergarten. Born Germany. Student of Pestalozzi. We first heard of Froebel when studying the great Frank Lloyd Wright whose mother, determined that baby Frank would grow up be an architect, used the 'Froebel Gifts' (wooden building blocks) for his home education. Wright later said "The maple wood blocks . . . are in my fingers to this day."
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Friedrich Froebel
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St Pauls German Evangelical Reformed Church
Built 1886-1887, destroyed by bombing in 1941. We have failed to find a picture of this church but AIM25 gives this: "The German Evangelical Reformed Church was established in London in 1697 by Pr...
1 memorial
Royal Ballet School
Originally founded by Ninette de Valois as the Academy of Choreographic Art. Its students are chosen purely for their dancing talent and not for any academic ability. Famous dancers and choreograph...
1 memorial
Thomas Braidwood
Established an early school for the deaf. Born Scotland. Set up as a teacher in Edinburgh and then, following his successful tuition of a deaf boy, in 1760 he specialised in teaching deaf children...
1 memorial
Haggerston Road School
We can find very little about this school, it's all just hints and pointers. AIM25's holdings for All Saints Church include some records about the parish school, presumably this one. The earlies...
2 memorials
Chiswick National School
Much of the following information comes from the very helpful Gill Clegg's Chiswick History page. 1707 a charity school was founded at St Nicholas church near the river. It expanded until in 1813 ...
1 memorial
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