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Oftenwhen they were perfectly quiet , lie would ask thein with , a kind smile , : " Is it not easier to become good and reasonable wher make noise ? When
they you are embraced quiet deceive , dear him children and father called , than ? him Is when father it ri you , ht he would to kiss a say me , " and Children " to do , g
behind can you my back your what grieves me ? " When they spoke , of the misery of the country and felt their own happiness , he said , "Is
sionate not God ? very Would good not to have like made to become the human very good heart so as so to compas be able - you
to Of do his good time to the at Stantz unhappy he ? writes " in 1801 : _"I saw the misery of and waded
throug the peop h le its before mire , my until the eyes I like was an acquainted interminable and discerned with swamp the sources , possibility of its
watersthe causes of stoppages , some live of draining d like , a . beggar I lived , that for many I might years learn among to teach beggars beggars ' children to live , and as
men . ... deepest of _" powers The recesses state awakening of of my the pup out mountains ils of at sleep Stantz to . attain was I would not my that end have of and gone learners was into happy , but the
, to find such a place as Stantz . But realize my position !—alone , — superintendent unfinished house , paymaster amidst , illness valet , and and even under maid entirel of all y work new — circum in an
stances . The number , of the children rose to eighty , all of different them ages entirel , some ignorant with . much What pretension a task , to others educate beggars them , ! mo I st ven of - y
tured " Being to I attempt made without them it . assistance teach .. each . , I found other ; out and how it was to a teach joyful several sight , to at
clearl see art once them of . y doing that taking the thi ennobling s loving into the care of hands of the those peop of mothers g le iven is no to dream and their children charge ; I will , . into put I felt the the shall be silentand
hands of the innocent , and the wicked , no more say " : As It the is but children a dream were . perfectly ignorant of the very elements of
This knowle led dge me , I to was feel obli how ged the to powers dwell of long the on mind each increase individual by knowing subject . smalltook note of
and doing one thing perfectly , be it ever so ; I the in the the happy elements earliest feeling of stage each which . branch I became arises of from knowled conscious consciousness ge of and the its conn of finished perfection exion between outline even ,
and felt the unfathomable gaps which are produced if each of the rudiment " Education s be not is perfectl nothing y conceived but the art by the of assisting child ' s mind Nature . in the
attempt For five to develop months herself Pestalozzi . " worked indefatigably , always
h strugg owever ling small with . difficulties His extraordinary , but always efforts rejoicing had well at - every nigh , broug success ht i
