Pestalozzi and the Foundation of the Modern Elementary School

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C. Scribner's Sons, 1901 - 306 pages
 

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Page 168 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 305 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 84 - Such as I have described him to you, we loved him; yes, we all loved him, for he loved us all; we loved him so much that when we lost sight of him for a time we felt sad and lonely, and when he came back to us again we could not turn our eyes away from him. We knew that at the time when the wars of the...
Page 29 - Pestalozzi firmly believed could be done. At the end of two years he had spent all the money he and his wife possessed, and the school closed in failure — a blessing in disguise — though with Pestalozzi's faith in the power of education unshaken. Of this experiment he wrote: "For years I have lived in the midst of fifty little beggars, sharing in my poverty my bread with them, living like a beggar myself in order to teach beggars to live like men.
Page 179 - Only that which takes possession of man as a whole (heart, mind and hand) is educative in the true sense of the word, and in accordance with nature.
Page ix - Prüfet alles, behaltet das Gute, und wenn etwas Besseres in euch selber gereift, so setzet es zu dem, was ich euch in diesen Bogen in Wahrheit und Liebe zu geben versuchte, in Wahrheit und Liebe hinzu und werfet wenigstens das Ganze meiner Lebensbestrebungen nicht als einen Gegenstand weg, der, schon abgetan, keiner weitern Prüfung bedürfe. - Er ist wahrlich noch nicht abgetan und bedarf einer ernsten Prüfung ganz sicher, und zwar nicht um meiner und um meiner Bitte willen.
Page 131 - February, 1827. Saviour of the poor at Neuhof, Preacher to the people in 'Leonard and Gertrude', Father of the fatherless at Stanz, Founder of the new Volkschule at Burgdorf and Munchenbuchsee, Teacher of mankind at Yverdon.
Page 114 - In the first hour afterward he had not noticed the pain, for the excess of his zeal and his joy. So ardent and zealous was the good old man, already numbering seventy years, when he thought he had an opportunity of doing good. I could adduce many such instances. It was nothing rare in summer for strangers to come to the castle four or five times in the same day. and for us to have to interrupt the instruction on their account two, three or four times.
Page 181 - ... issues?' Is not this precisely what is happening in most schools most of the time? 10 Moral elementary education is nothing else than the pure development of the human will, by the higher sentiments of love, gratitude, and faith, in the perfection in which they are expressed in their first blossomings in the pure relations between mother and child. The aim of this education is the moral perfection of our nature; its means are exercises in striving after perfection in moral thought, sentiment,...

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