Adler Influenced by Froebel's Ideas?

While reading Norman Brosterman's new book Inventing Kindergarten, about the life and work of the German educator Friedrich Froebel, I was fascinated by the conceptual similaries shared by Adler and Froebel. It is common knowledge that Frank Lloyd Wright, as a child, was deeply imprinited with the Froebel "gifts," a set of geometric wooden shapes. Brosterman also suggests that artists like Braque, Klee, Kandinsky, and Mondrian may have been strongly influenced, as children, in the Froebel kindergartens. Considering that many of Adler's principles resonate with those of Froebel as well as Wright, is it possbile that Adler, as a very young child, like several other creative individuals, was also deeply influenced by Froebel's ideas, materials, and philosophy of living? I see no specific reference to Froebel in any of the Adlerian literature. However, considering time and place, is it probable that he attended a Froebel kindergarten? If you have any reference to this, I would appreciate it.

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to Dr. Stien Ph.d, by Ed Riemann MSW LCSW, 5/8/97 More About Adler and Froebel, by Henry Stein, 5/17/97 Froebel on Mothering, by Henry Stein, 6/14/97

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