nurturing children to be inquisitive and open to the world
The 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta will be a commemoration of international significance.
Due to its impact across the world, a wide range of events and activities are being planned
Events | Magna Carta Trust 800th Anniversary | Celebrating 800 years of democracy.
Cube 6 by designer Naho Matsuno turns from a cube into six stools and back again.
The stools are made from birch plywood and maple and the cube is 350 x 350 x 350mm when slotted together.
Standing wooden nutcrackers in the form of soldiers and kings were shown in the Sonneberg and Erzgebirge regions by 1800. In both places, carving of nut crackers arose from the earlier tradition of carving religious figure.
In 1830, the term “Nussknacker” appeared in the dictionary of the Brothers Grimm. It was defined as “often in the form of a misshaped little man, in whose mouth the nut, by means of a leaver or screw, is cracked open”.
In 1872 Wilhelm Füchtner, known as the “father of the nutcracker,” made the first commercial production of nutcrackers using the lathe to create many of the same design.
The Nutcracker ballet with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892. Since the late 1960s this ballet has enjoyed enormous popularity.
BRADNER: the change brought about in the last half-dozen years by the smartphone is breathtaking.
In much of the world, the smartphone is the Internet. It’s the only Internet they’ve got. That kind of empowerment of billions of people — particularly in parts of the world that do not have the infrastructure to support regular Internet — is going to be really mind-bending.
In general education, things like edX and the MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses] have the potential to be very, very impactful. The fact that some kid in rural India can take a physics course is breathtaking.The innovation you have on these mobile platforms, people building apps — Apple’s up to a half-million apps and Android is not far behind — is very empowering.
I have very fond memories of my schooling, including my five years at a high school. I think my schooling served me well. It supported my parents’ conviction that education was the pathway to a productive life and that girls needed and deserved a career. It taught me to think for myself, to analyse, organise, hypothesise, challenge, martial and test arguments. It gave me a peer group with whom I could share, trial and extend these skills as well as teachers who were role models and experts in their subject fields. My subsequent courses at Sydney University and the University of South Australia built on what I learned at school, but it was the intellectual skills and the mental discipline I acquired at high school that formed the solid foundation.
Froebel Blocks that inspired Frank Lloyd Wright’s earliest dreams
Milton Bradley Company
“Bradley’s Kindergarten Material”
(Froebel Blocks)
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Guest post on SlushHeap by Johannes “John” Froebel-Parker, Director of the Froebel Gallery, New York
HRH The Crown Princess becomes the patron of the jubilee celebration “School for 200 Years”
“For me, the school has an entirely special status. It is here we make the first friendships, we acquire specialized information and knowledge so we can pursue our dreams later in life. It is also in the school that the children can develop a strong feeling of community and become more able to cooperate. With school, a world of possibilities opens up. I am pleased to participate in the festivities and meet lots of engaged and creative children and adults.”
In 2014, Denmark celebrates the 200 year-old right and duty of Danish children to receive education. The Crown Princess, in her role as patron, will mark the jubilee of the schools’ 200th birthday in 2014. With the anniversary, the introduction of compulsory education for Danish schoolchildren will be celebrated with a number of national and local events and projects for children and adults. These projects count, among others, 40 large projects, including Lærer for Livet (Teacher for Life), which conveys the development of the teaching role over 200 years. In the course of the jubilee year, exhibitions, school theatre productions and nationwide school dances will take place.
Now made in China from European beech wood and available at amazon.com
via Amazon.com : The Froebel Gifts 2-6 with Instruction Manual : Toy Stacking Block Sets : Toys & Games.
The trademark, Froebel Gifts 2000 ® was registered in 1999 when a set of maple blocks made in USA and were listed in Dr. Toy’s Best Classic Toys for 1999.
