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This page is being used to collect information about the view, prevalent among Froebel's early followers, that paperfolding shoulkd be taught as a creative process and was not intended to be the sterile reproduction of previously discovered forms.

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1875

In her book 'Froebels Methode', which was published in 1875, Elise Van Calcar the author makes it clear that she sees paperfolding in the classroom as a creative process rather than one of sterile reproduction:

In the section about Schonnheitsformen she comments ''we get the opportunity to invent all kinds of nice folds'.

In the section about 'Witty Inventions of Children' she says, roughly translated: 'We also give figures 13, 14, 15 and 16 as witty inventions of children, as an example that in a good exercise one need never remain with the models but that in every home and in every school unique forms will be obtained through the free invention of the clever pupils.'

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