Fuyu (or Fuyuko) Toyoda （豊田 芙雄[子] 1845-1941）
A pioneer in higher learning for women, and precursive leader in Japanese kindergarten education
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Born in Mito in 1845, Toyoda proceeded to Tokyo in 1875 as a member of the teaching staff of the Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School (now the Ochanomizu University.) When its affiliated kindergarten opened the following year, she became its day-care worker, or should we say the very first day-care worker in Japan. She later went abroad in Europe to study education for women. Upon her return, she devoted herself to primary and secondary education in various prefectures of Japan. According to her, “it is necessary for women to display their womanhood and to access higher education in order to be a good wife a wise mother.”During her entire life, she paved the way as a true educationalist.
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