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Johann Bernhard Basedow established the first school in Europe to offer physical education as part of the curriculum. He was an early proponent of the importance of exercise and gymnastics, dedicating up to three hours per day to physical education. Despite his innovative ideas, Basedow was difficult to work with. Johann Friedrich Guts Muths developed playground equipment like seesaws and climbing ropes and authored a book on gymnastics called "Gymnastics for Youth." Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was also an advocate of educating through natural activities and exercise. He conducted gymnastics outdoors so children could better concentrate on their studies.

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Above All

Johann Bernhard Basedow established the first school in Europe to offer physical education as part of the curriculum. He was an early proponent of the importance of exercise and gymnastics, dedicating up to three hours per day to physical education. Despite his innovative ideas, Basedow was difficult to work with. Johann Friedrich Guts Muths developed playground equipment like seesaws and climbing ropes and authored a book on gymnastics called "Gymnastics for Youth." Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was also an advocate of educating through natural activities and exercise. He conducted gymnastics outdoors so children could better concentrate on their studies.

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JOHANN BERNHARD BASEDOW

- established the Philanthropinum. it was


the first school in Europe to offer physical
education as part of the curriculum.
- He was one of the first men to recognized the
importance of exercise. He included gymnastics
as part of the daily curriculum devoting up to
three hours per day to educating the physical.
- He was one of the few at time who recognized
that children should be treated as a children
and not small adults.
- Basedow required a specific uniform for his
students so they could have unrestricted
movement.
- He offered a camp for two months during the
summer for his students.
- Despite all of his ideas and innovation Basedow
was a difficult man to work with.
Johann Friedrich Guts Muths
- succeeded Christian Carl Andre us instructor of
physical education at the Schnepfenthal
educational institute.
- He was known as a great grandfather of
gymnastics.
- He had developed the famous playground and
apparatuses like the seesaw, horizontal ladder,
climbing rope and rope ladder.
- He also developed the balance beam and
oblique wooden ladder.
- He Authored the book in gymnastics entitled “
Gymnastics for Youth.” in which he regards his
system of teaching as “natural gymnastics.”
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827)
- As with Rousseau and Basedow, Pestalozzi
was a staunch believer in educating through
the “natural laws”, so his programs included
the natural activities of running, climbing,
jumping, and self-discovery.
- He is considered the founder of free arm
exercises or calisthenics.
- He conducted gymnastics exercises in
outdoor gyms so children could sit and
concentrate on their studies for longer
periods of time.
- At hi school in Burgdorf he provided
separate teachers for all subjects including
physical education. Considered as one of the
founders of modern pedagogy, he arranged
his system of exercises according to their
difficulty and effect on the body.

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