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    HEINRICH PESTALOZZI. 9

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    «, • W Pest Orke Alozzi D So Graduall , ...

    much we owe to him of tlie training * we have received from our cradleand of the pleasure we have had in learning * our first

    rudi-, ments . His ideas on instruction and education are so natural and simple ,

    that we scarcely realize that some one was required to teach them to the world . He first made school a home , and taught the mother

    how to make home a school ; he began by winning the confidence and affection of the child , instead of forcing words and lessons

    into its passive mind ; he first awakened the feeling , and then taught the word , inclined the child ' s heart towards the good , and

    • then gave precepts . Before his time , schools abroad , and I fear no less in England ,

    were not much more than places of compulsion ; nothing * but commanding and forbidding was heard ; dry , dull lessons were learnt

    and said ; corporal punishment was the only means of rousing the idleand of frightening the obstreperous and the untruthful .

    , Pestalozzi opened the children ' s minds and hearts—nay , their eyes and ears to the world around them , or , at least , to the little world

    next to them . His name may be known to many in connexion with Lessons on

    Objects , and they may think that is all we owe to him . But these lessons were only a small part of his new natural method ; he did

    the same for the moral and religious training , which Lessons on Objects do for the intellectual development . He formed the power

    of observation , stimulated the desire of doing good , by every oppor- _? tunity within the grasp of the child .

    He had too long to grope in the dark himself ; he was of too unpractical a turn to carry out his method with reference to any

    • one particular branch of education , which might serve as a key to those who wish to have a short illustration of his system . He had

    no element of a man of business in him , so that there was no establishment existing for a length of time which might be called his , nor

    any that existed after him as essentially his creation . His ideal for raising the condition of the poor and the people was so high that

    i ; he actual world was too small for it , and above all , his own imperfections too great . But his loving and trusting heart , his youthful

    enthusiasm , never left him ; however often his undertakings were considered failureshe plunged boldly into new ones whenever an

    -opportunity offered , , and a field appeared ripe for harvest . His ideas have since widely pervaded the modes of training and

    teaching the young at home and at school ; and if the reader will accompany me through his active lifehe will best feel what we

    , owe to Pestalozzi . Heinrich Pestalozzi was born at Zurich on January 12 th , 1746 .

    Being persecuted in the canton of Tessin on account of their reformed faithhis ancestors had fled to that charming spotso famous for

    , , onward striving and intellectual life in most periods of Swiss

    liistory _.

    Heinrich Pestalozzi. 9

    _HEINRICH PESTALOZZI . 9

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/9/