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HEINBICH PESTALOZZI. 17
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hini to the-grave , when the progress of things connected with the war comelled him to ive the school . The French again entered
Stantz ; and p the orphan g asy up lum was turned into a hospital ; the good man was obliged to disperse the children , who all sobbed and cried
he mockery in made taking on leave b every elieve of side " Father could ,- even Pestalozzi work his friend but . " Now said the , , " t g For h ain he , five is there t months ired was of
, t It horoug , * we migh an t d ' have is altogether known this incapable beforehand . " A ; strange he knows conversation nothing
in reference y , to Pestalozzi and this new compulsory change , is , recorded ; it shows how little people tried to understand the real
state of the case . A . " Have you seen how miserable he looks ?"
he B A throws . . " "So Yes a do , li I p I , it t y around the t he poor canno him wretch t be thoug ! " h he ; even knew if something now and the the n
next moment all g is darknessand , if one looks nearer he has , but singed himself . " ,
B . " Would he had burnt himself ; there is no help for him until he is in ashes . " Such seeches were his reward at Stantz ; and yet he was much
grieved on p leaving it , and very ill for some time , but scarcely had -he recovered than he resolved more firmly than ever to be a
schoolmaster again , and to make use of all his past experience . He offered himself as a teacher at Burgdorfin the Canton of Berne .
There also the arents were at first dissa , tisfiedand said : " Our children do not learn p anything , not even the Church , Catechism ; ,
we could teach them ourselves what they learn at school . " Suchi speecheshoweverrather rejoiced Pestalozzi ; they proved to _himi
, , that one of his principal aims was gained—that of a more natural education for childhood .
After eight months , an examination was held in presence of the Inspectors of the districtwho were well satisfied and convinced
that the children ' s faculties , had really been developed . Unfortunately , after a year , illness obliged the devoted teacher to give up
the promising school ; but Burgdorf had made him acquainted with a kindred spirit . Kriisianother of Nature ' s teachershad been a
schoolmaster at Appenzell , ; the year 1799 had made twent , y-eight children orphans ; the country was too poor to maintain them ; so
Kriisi had emigrated with them and settled at Burgdorf . Pestalozzi had for some time past sought assistance from the Helvetian
Government towards establishing an educational institution , which he regarded as an object of national importance . In 1800
the government granted him the use of the old castle of Burgdorf ; it able was ; , there however was , no in a furniture bad condition and , the and government alterations were did not unavoid grant
enough assistance . What was , to be done ? Pestalozzi was poor and in debt y he applied to the richer parents of children who were
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Heinbich Pestalozzi. 17
HEINBICH PESTALOZZI . 17
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/17/
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