In 1836 she established an institute for the foundation of preschool centers. He also wrote The Infant System, for developing the physical, intellectual, and moral powers of all children from 1 to seven years of age.Ĭountess Theresa Brunszvik (1775–1861), who had known and been influenced by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, was influenced by this example to open an Angyalkert ('angel garden' in Hungarian) on May 27, 1828, in her residence in Buda, the first of eleven care centers that she founded for young children. He began working for the Infant School Society the next year, informing others about his views. In 1823, Wilderspin published On the Importance of Educating the Infant Poor, based on the school. He is credited with inventing the playground. Play was an important part of Wilderspin's system of education. He published many works on the subject, and his work became the model for infant schools throughout England and further afield. Samuel Wilderspin opened his first infant school in London in 1819, and went on to establish hundreds more.

His system was successful in producing obedient children with basic literacy and numeracy. In conjunction with his venture for cooperative mills, Owen wanted the children to be given a good moral education so that they would be fit for work. In 1816, Robert Owen, a philosopher and pedagogue, opened the first British and probably globally the first infants school in New Lanark, Scotland. In 1802, Princess Pauline zur Lippe established a preschool center in Detmold, the capital of the then principality of Lippe, Germany (now in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia). At about the same time, in 1780, similar infant establishments were created in Bavaria. In 1779, Johann Friedrich Oberlin and Louise Scheppler founded in Strasbourg an early establishment for caring for and educating preschool children whose parents were absent during the day. Kindergarten, by Johann Sperl, circa 1885 Early years and development

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