Teaching had hardly changed since Ptolemy’s day. Education was by rote and rod. A young, ugly, runty, sad-eyed Swiss scholar wanted to do something about it. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had already ...
On their way through Switzerland in the early 1800s, many a notable—among them Talleyrand and Madame de Stael—made a point of stopping at Yverdon. There, in an old castle, lived scores of waifs and ...
An unpublished letter regarding the education of Jewish children written in 1799 by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, famous Swiss pedagogue and founder of modern educational theory, has just come to light ...
JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI died at Brugg, Switzerland, on Feb. 17, 1827; and in the hundred years which have passed since then, a great change has taken place in educational thought and practice.
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