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I had doubts listening to this episode - for something as intractable as the artistic/architectural zeitgeist of modernism, could we really attribute as much cause-and-effect to Froebel's invention of kindergarten as Roman Mars seems to? Yet seeing the images of Froebel's exercises side-by-side with architects' and artists' work convinced me. The resemblances between the Gifts and some of these sketches are really uncanny.