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Kindergarten
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; - a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Kindergarten'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/k/kindergarten.html. 1828.