It was in 1769, in the most unlikely corner of Alsace or even of France and well before the establishment of the secular public school that the first nursery school in France was born… In Waldersbach, in this small village in the mid-mountains, a bubbling visionary and reforming pastor, Jean Frédéric Oberlin, devoted considerable energy to opening the local population, from early childhood to adulthood, to education and learning about life in society. The tools he would use there were “revolutionary”…
In the presbytery where he lived, welcomed his parishioners and which housed the first "knitting stove" (classroom), the collections of games and educational instruments straight from the imagination of this knowledge-hungry man rub shoulders with curiosities from the four corners of the world. See the map
In the presbytery where he lived, welcomed his parishioners and which housed the first "knitting stove" (classroom), the collections of games and educational instruments straight from the imagination of this knowledge-hungry man rub shoulders with curiosities from the four corners of the world. See the map
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