Pestalozzi : Johann Heinrich (1746-1827), Swiss educational reformer who was among the first to stress the need for better popular education. His theories laid the foundation of modern elementary education.
... methods Pestalozzi considered necessary in order to render education more "natural". The early part of the passage underlines the vigour with which Pestalozzi felt they would have to be propagated if they were to replace the old methods. It is not surprising to find that Pestalozzi uses a natural image to convey one of his most fundamental principles: Page 276 Pestalozzi surrounded... Heafford, Pestalozzi, His Thought and its Relevance Today (London: Methuen, 1967), pp. 39-49. References There are many books about Pestalozzi in German, but very few in English. A thorough account of his life and work can be found in: Silber, Kate. Pestalozzi, the man and his work. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1960. Page 282 Pestalozzi and his grandson(... long last, Pestalozzi got the opportunity he was waiting for. A new federal 1. Ibid., p.14 2. Ibid., p.16. 3.Ibid.,p.17 Page 265 government set up in Switzerland by the French offered Pestalozzi the charge of a home for orphans and homeless children at Stans, which had nearly been destroyed by battles between Swiss patriots and the occupying French Army. Pestalozzi accepted the ...
... right, sane, virile aesthetic cult and literature, architecture, sculpture and painting are only a useless scribbling on paper, an insane hacking of stone and an effeminate daubing of canvas; Vauban, Pestalozzi, Dr. Parr, Vatel and Beau Brummell are then the true heroes of artistic creation and not Da Vinci, Angelo, Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare or Rodin. Whether Mr. Archer's epithets and his accusations ...
... speaks of "holding the hand of the pupil", and texts from Helen Keller about the relations between Sullivan her teacher and pupil Helen herself. We have also taken texts from Montessori and from Pestalozzi. We have also spoken of philosophy of education from B. Russel and spoken of the Brazilian educationist Paulo Fteire. We took extracts from Magister Ludi, the beautiful and thoughtful book by Herman ...
... experiments in integral education conducted in the light of Sri Aurobindo, as also pioneering experiments conducted in different parts of the world under the inspiration of Rousseau, Montessori, Pestalozzi, Bertrand Russell, Paulo Freire and others. It can be seen that the central knot of the problem that confronts child-centered education consists of the intertwining of three needs in a meaningful ...
... 501 — Pavitra, Auroville: p. 513—Nehru Memorial Museum Library, New Delhi: p. 374, p. 383 — Paulo Freire Institute: p. 490, p. 507 — Maria Montessori Association Archives, Amsterdam: p. 345, 348— Pestalozzi Institute: p. 260, p. 269, 272, p. 277 — Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust Archives, p. 514, p. 515, p. 520 — Editions Auroville Press Publishers: p. 495 — Jean-Louis Nou, Mathura Museum: p. 96 — A ...
... attitudes required for living together through cooperation and through the processes of mutuality and interdependence. Thanks to the pioneering educational philosophers like Rousseau, Montessori, Pestalozzi, Bertrand Russell, Paulo Freire, and Piaget, it is Page 303 now being increasingly recognised that education must be a bringing out of the child's own intellectual and moral capacities ...
... education and of the entire transformation of our educational system. We have also a favourable climate being created by some of the progressive experiments in the West, such as those promoted by Pestalozzi, Montessori, Bertrand Russell and others; the trend is towards child-centred education, and the basic idea is that the individual is not merely a social unit, but a soul, a being, who has to fulfil ...
... entire transformation of our educational systems. Page 648 * We have also a favourable climate being created by some of the progressive experiments in the West, such as those promoted by Pestalozzi, Montessori, Bertrand Russell and others; the trend is towards child-centered education, and the basic idea is that the individual is not merely a social unit, but a soul, a being, who has to fulfil ...
... seventeen. Then in 1884, she went to England and became a teacher, first in a school at Keswick, and then at Wrexham and at Chester. She was very interested in new methods of teaching like those of Pestalozzi and Froebel. In 1892, she was invited to open a school of her own in _________ * Kalidasa, Vikramorvashiyam, IV, 24. Page 73 Wimbledon, a suburb of London. In this way Margaret ...
... and of the entire transformation of our educational system. We have also a favourable climate being created by some of the progressive experiments in the West, such as those promoted by Pestalozzi, Montessori, Bertrand Russel and others; the trend is towards child-centred education, and the basic idea is that the individual is not merely a social unit, but a soul, a being, who has to fulfil ...
... together and the conceptions behind their experiments need to be developed further; they also need to be synthesized with pioneering experiments conducted in the West under the influence of Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Montessori, Russell and Paulo Freire. Fortunately, these western educationists discovered and underlined one great need which Indian culture at its highest, right from the earliest Veda to the ...
... Napoleon ascribed the French Revolution more to Rousseau than to any other writer. Not least significant, education still feels repercussions from Emile. The book's educational ideas stimulated Pestalozzi in Switzerland, Maria Montessori in Italy, and John Dewey in America; "progressive education " is part of Rousseau s legacy. 1. Rousseau, op cit.,p. 17 .2. From J. M. Cohen, Introduction ...
... Keswick. That was her first job in educational lines. She had decided to make education her life's work. Then, when at Texton, she heard of a new method of education of children developed by J.H. Pestalozzi (1746-1827), the Swiss educational reformer, and F. W. A. Froebel (1782-1852), the German educator and the originator of kindergarten. She went to Liverpool to learn this method from a disciple of ...
... to the present day, there is no episode more remarkable that the series of happenings which came tumbling into being, one after the other, during the next six months. Nothing that took place in Pestalozzi's school at Iverdun, or in Froebel's Anstalt at Neuheim, or amongst Tolstoy's peasant children can equal it for sheer wonder. It reads like a fairy story. Everyone who wishes to understand the ...
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