Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus

Henriette Schrader-Breymann emphasized "learning by doing", the kindergarten value of play, using nature as a theme and normal domestic tasks.

[3] The first Swedish kindergarten teachers were trained by Schrader-Breymann at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus,[1] including Mary Lyschinska.

However, the German ideas complemented the growing influence of American approaches suggested by G. Stanley Hall and Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Elizabeth Harrison of Chicago travelled to Berlin in 1889 to find out about the ideas she had seen practised by a German teacher.

[5] The institution's influence spread to the United Kingdom when Caroline Bishop and Julia Lloyd both trained here.