Kindergarten
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A garden of children was devised by Froebel, a German philosopher and educator, to apply to a system which he elaborated for the instruction of children of very tender years. "Children's garden" ought to be taken in its allegorical sense. The child is a plant, the school is a garden and Froebel calls teachers "gardeners of children."
107 Cal. 190. Compayre, History of Pedagogy, § 537, Payne's translation.