Pestalozzi the Influence of His Principles and Practice on Elementary Education (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Familiar as Pestalozzi's name is to our ears, it will hardly be pretended that he himself is well known amongst us. His life and personal character - the work he did him self, and that which he influenced others to do - his successes and failures as a teacher, form altogether a large subject, which requires, to do it justice, a thoughtful and lengthened study. Parts of the subject have been from time to time brought very prominently before the public, but often in such a way as to throw the rest into shadow, and hinder the appreciation of it as a whole. Though this has been done without any hostile intention, the general effect has been in England to misrepresent, and therefore to under estimate, a very remarkable man - a man whose principles, slowly but surely operating on the public Opinion of Ger many, have sufficed, to use his own pithy expression, to turn right round the car of Education, and set it in a new dir.ection'

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