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Outside the Froebelmuseum in Bad Blankenburg, on 22nd September 2007, on the 25th anniversary of the opening of the museum in the building which housed the first kindergarten established by Friedrich Froebel, are Margitta Rockstein, Director of the Museum, and Professor Karl Neumann, Froebel scholar.

http://www.heidecksburg.de/froebelmuseum_eng.htm

The current kindergarten in Bad Blankenburg, established in 1908, with Froebel's untranslatable exhortation for all to see: 'Come, let us live for [or 'with'] our children!' (from The Education of Man, 1826).

Outside the only Froebel school in Germany for children age 6-11, in Rudolstadt, near Bad Blankenburg, September 2007. (The team leader and founder is on the right (in yellow) - Martina König - and her deputy is on the left - Grit Stolze.) The notice on the school wall says 'Education is example and love!'.

http://jugendsozialwerk.de/index.php?id=1878

The 'opening' collective class at the Froebel Education Centre, Mississauga, Toronto, Canada, April 2007. [Website: see above.]

Some older children (age12) having used the blocks to learn Pythagoras' theorem at the Froebel Education Centre, Toronto, pictured with the principal and founder, Dr Barbara Corbett.