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Inheriting Froebel's Gifts

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Using Blocks to Teach the World

The gifts encourage students to think abstractly and to relate ideas objects and symbols. Frobel had children sitting at desks, little work stations with grids laid out. So it's not free play. The fact that the table has an underlying rid is very much at the root of the directed plate we follow instructions and as an underlying order. But even at this final stage, this wasn't the kind of creative free for all we tend to associate with childhood play.

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