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.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Schools conducted according to Froebel's system for the development of the power of observation and the memory of young children.