Preschool, also called preschool or kindergarten education, is the name of the educational cycle that is taught to children under 5 years of age, which precedes compulsory primary education. In some countries, it is part of the formal education system, while in others it is taken as “kindergarten”, where they are simply given the basic tools to cope with school more easily.
This is born from the need to cover the first stages of human development, this being one of the most decisive, since a large part of the personality and behavior patterns are acquired here.
At the initiative of Robert Owen, in 1816 the first kindergarten was opened, located in New Lanark, Scotland. Later, in 1828, in Hungary, Teresa Brunszvik opened an “angyalkert” in her residence. With this, the concept quickly spread throughout the Kingdom of Hungary, being, by then, one of the institutions to which the nobles and middle class targeted their minor children, urging them to receive an education from a very young age.
In 1837, in Germany today, Friedrich Froebel opened the first institution outside of Hungary, which he named "kindergarten", this being translated as "kindergarten" also expanding in this country, then England came up from last to United States.
Mexico would be the first Latin American country to have kindergartens, since the rest of the subcontinent would have them at the beginning of the 20th century, becoming the responsibility of the State for homeless children, who, until that moment, were cared for and educated by religious institutions.
