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AN AC C O U N T O F T H E M ET H O D
A Rep o r t t o th e S o ci e ty of the Fr i e n ds of E du c a ti o n B u rg do rf
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JO H A NN H E I N RI C H P E S T AL O Z Z I
T R AN S L ATE D BY
AN D E D I TE D , W I TH I NT R O D U C TI O N AN D N O TE S ,
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S e c o n d E diti o n , f r o m W h o l ly N ew Pl a t es
S Y R A CU S E N Y ,
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C . W . B A R D EE N P U B L I SH E R ,
1 89 8
C O PY R I GH T ,
1 898 , BY 0 . W . B ARD EEN
C O N T E NT S
NO TE ON T W O DI FFI CU L T W OR D S
PR E FAC E
LETTE R I Ex pe rim e n ts at Stan z an d Bu rg d o rf
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L ETTE R V T h e T h ree So u rc e s Of K n o w l e d g e
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L ETTE R V I Nu mb er Fo rm L an g u ag e
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APPEN DI X
AN ACC OU N T MET H O D A RE POR T
O F T HE .
S U PPL E ME N T S T o T HE MET H O D
NO TE S T o PR E FAC E AN D L ETTE RS
IN D E X
ED I T O R S P R E FA C E
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n it e l
y stated in The Me tho d T h e Fir st Le tter.
fro m
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p e group and are his most important educational
e t ,
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it . There are two ways O f instructing
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he says ; ,
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dedicate to Natur e s self and things that teach as
Nature teaches written at exactly the same time and
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in this Work .
I n his
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learning and working are in the name .
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4 E D IT O R S P R EFA C E
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himself on learning to see and on seeing as the “
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ra d— as did all the Pre R a ph a e lit i e s— the Pesta
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its best nearly twenty years before Payne s lecture on
Pestalozzi .
c ipl e s and O
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Pestalozzi s spirit h e had been friend ’
him the best guide and critic possible perhaps the only ,
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N O T E ON T WO D I FF I C U L T W O RD S
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pression
indicated b y Sense impression is fre -
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8 NOTE ON Tw o D I FF I C U LT W O RD S
word in tuition
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and quite recently l fi Q ui c k has
sanctioned its use It has the advantage of being
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ANS CH A UU NG
Con templa tio , in tuitio , eaperien tia
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An scha uun g ist ein e Vorstellun g so wie sie un in ittelbar
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non der Gegen wa rt des Gegen sta n des a bhan gen
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diger An scha u un g
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You mus t grasp it not in
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( ichte ) . .
— s Deutsches WOrterbu ch
G rimm
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I NT U ITI O N
1 Mental perception Of anything ; immediate knowl
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edge .
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tions are called self e vi dent -
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is insensible ( G
.1 an v ill e
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S ermon s
( outh S , ) .
— Latham s
John son s Diction ary
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does not imply the pre sence of the obj ect bef ore t h e
Senses with the same strictness that An scha uun g does in
the mouths of K ant and Pestalozzi .
impression .
2 .
( )
a Fo r the men ta l a ct by wh ich the above k n owl
e dge is obtained— o bserva tion .
10 NO T E ON T wo D I FF I C U LT WO R D S
( ) A
0 n d again for o bj ects of the world about which
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such knowledge is gained seen o bjects .
( T h e M e tho d page ,
S O also An scha uun g
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d O bj ects seen possess form number color light , , , ,
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( page
The word intuition is used by Pestal o zzi but not as ,
C T )
. I ntuitive ideas given by nature and art
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( A
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p . is nearer n sch a uu n g .
( )
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Im made by all that
i o m i d n ta lly L
press on s c e s a cc e
into contact with the five senses The obj ects are in .
d
n o o r er but in natural confusion
, The action on the .
( )
2 Atten tio n Teachers call a tten tion to what they
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( ) p
3 S o n ta n eo us ef or ts But what the teacher
. pre
sents does not always absorb the whole attention some ,
seek this of its own free will and throw its whole soul ,
( )
4 N ec es sar y w o rk Man must satisfy his wants and
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iz at io n s and education
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( )
5 A n a logy a n d Su b ective o bserva tion
j The unseen i s .
W ordsworth s imagination
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tru th W hi c h
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in
I s b u t an o t h e r n am e fo r ab st rac t po w e rs
An d c l e are st in sigh t famplit u de o f mi n d
An d Re aso n in h e r m o st e x alte d mo o d —Pre lu de . .
14 NOTE ON T wo D I FF I CU LT W O R D S
Ea gle s Nest 1 8 8 7 pp 1 2 7
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rea din es s ; ( )
2 rea din ess in performin g some a ction
a n d skill .
Fertigkeiten
we have generally translated ac t iv
ities but several other equivalents are use d e g ( 1 ) , . .
capa cities ; e g ( 1 )
— We are far behind the gr e at
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hu m an callings depend ( )
2 T h e people do not
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j oy the culture o f those practica l a bilities ( )
3 The .
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an d knowledge Powers of kn o win g a n d doin g
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C an is the prete rite of the Obsolete verb meani ng
kn ow so that its real meaning is I have kn own or lea rn t
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Dictionary .
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G essner Z ii ic
r h 1 80 1
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— Pddagogische Biblio thek Albert ,
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Richter Leipzig 1 8 8 0 ,
This is the text we have gen , .
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Paris 1 8 8 6 ,
Also t h e following biographies etc
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R De Gu imps
. Pesta lozzi his Life an d Work . Tra n ,
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J.
, Pesta lozzi Etu de Biographique Paris 1 8 90 ,
Pesta , ,
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( 1 6)
H
owGertrude Teaches H
er Children
P R E FA C E
If these l etters may be considered in some r espects
as already answered and partly refuted by time and .
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lec t e d W orks v o l v
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. C otta Stuttgart and T ii b in g e n
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to be quenched .
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20 PREF A C E
T H E P R E P O N D ER A N CE OF N I E DE RE R 23
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facts it has a background in me that
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h as awakened
some self -
c o n fi de n c e .
as I was f ma kin g
capa ble o .
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the one basis of its highest and most e sse n tial bless
ings ; therefore they Should be respected in the highes t
degree They cannot be where we do no t —s ee them
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mann er .
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e ven that which he hath may not be too depre s sin gl yi
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fulfilled in me .
in ’l
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able to do .
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lish e d .
28 PREF A CE
glarin g colors ;
PE S T AL O Z Z I
YV E RDU N , Jun e I st,
30 I E X PER IME NTS AT
. STAN z AN D BU RCDORF
Ah l x
enough ! ever Since my youth has my
lon g .
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bear witness that my dreams a nd wishes whic h
I was then trying to work out are n o t less c o mpre h e n
sive n o w than they were then .
nor the skill that its realization calle d for and pre su p
posed My ideal Scheme included work in t he fields
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air ;
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B E GINNING OF H IS W O RK 31
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I had alre ady lost the money and credit which would
have made the organization of thi s staff possible to me
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pare n tl
y happy issue from my premature attempts .
knows them 5
. I suffered as the people su fi e re d ; an d
the people showed the m
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selve s to me a s they were and ,
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PUR P O S E OF H I S LI F E 33
t rude 6
,was a proof O f this my inner helplessness I .
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34 I E X P ER I ME NTS AT
. ST AN z AN D BUR G D O RF
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layed to plant it .
fall .
supply it .
lishe d 1 7 9 7
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Nie de re r writing to him early in 1 8 01
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when you wrote that book you did not exactly know ,
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what you wanted ?
Yes that was my fate to be misunderstood and to
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hodge podge
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. Win ter ’
s Ta le ,
sc . 3
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38 I . Ex pERIME NTS AT ST AN z AN D B UR G D O R F
homin es) , who did not want so little and who knew no
the people of course found that I was not m ade fo
,
)
Sh ipwre c k :n o t h in g but the word which I spoke in
—
Legrand 7 5 5 1 8 38 belonged with Iselin and other
1 , ,
H IS SCH O O L AT ST AN z 39
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n o u n c in
g sounds 7
and mak i ng them
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I m i ta t e them .
idea w hich I felt but Of which I was not cle arly aware .
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Accoun t of the Metho d to the Society Of Friends Of
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T HE L E TT ER FR O M STAN z 43
untrodden .
beauty and order They felt their own p o wer and the
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44 I . E X PER I ME NTS AT STAN z AN D B UR G D O RF
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w
r eal k n o ledge Stands to b oo k kno wledge I learned
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m
the ) must be I saw what a hin drance this may b e
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the coop and shed and so have lost all power Of flying an d
Swi mmIn g I c o uld never m
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ake wise as I well knew
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T H E S CH OOL AT B UR G D O RF 47
eve n S O was I .
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A town in Canton Bern . Here he resumed his in
t e rru pt e d work towards the end Of July ,
1 799 .
48 I . EX P ER I ME NTS AT ST AN z A N D BU RGD ORF
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wen t to Bern .
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purpose .
Of Thun .
HE E N OOU N TE RS RI DI OU LE 49
in the Sixth it is no go
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We might have known it
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able in his fiftieth They said aloud that the very
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T he first said DO you see h o w ugly li t4 8 i - 3
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death ! He cannot be helped till he i s ashes .
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energy and good will to make the path whic h I -
seeking .
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But the Hin tersa ssen schoolmaster Of the brisk ’
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Heidelber g ” k
was in danger>
This is still the food .
T he
Heidelberg or Palatinate Catechism was com
piled and published by the Heidelberg t he o to gian s ,
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still whispered in each other s ears in the streets that
I could not even write nor count nor read correctly
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Mean hile it was not to be expected Of
c l asses of Burgdorf that they should acc
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upwards .
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sa
y to abstract ideas I lived solely upon conv i ctions
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that now asp i re with all their power and all their im
pulses towards the development Of their individuality .
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ictur e
T H I NGS B EF ORE W O RD S 59
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my e xperiments ]
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. An anxious mother entrusted her
h ardly t h re e year Ol d child to my private teaching
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what he knew of anything color limbs place form , , , ,
I E X P ER I ME NTS
. AT S TA N Z A N D BURGD ORF
powers .
I am con
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and to madness .
men !
It i s as i f an evil Sp irit had reserved for our quar t er -
Of
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. my;
dear little Lu dwig wh o se whims force me to
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with fu ll con scio usn ess of it they stray into the labyrinth
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nothing for the human race ; and yet Nature only does
u S good ; she alone leads u S uncorrupted and unshaken
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c ountless O bj ects .
1 .
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He wishes to ra ise the capa city f
o the min d in ten sively,
an d n ot merely to en rich it ex ten sive ly with con ception s .
loudly and Often to the children and lets them rep eat ,
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ters with colored chalk .
tiny letters ) .
g,
sary comparison A double occupation at the same .
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( I had in my experiments of thirty years ago found
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the most decisive results I h ad already at that time .
Ca n do already ) .
impression f
o Na tu f
r e, la n gu a ge to be the first mea n s O g n
a i
i n g kn owledge Of o ur ra ce I arrived at this from the .
the m by art ) .
Course psychologically .
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72 I E X P ER I ME NTS AT S T A N Z
. AN D BUR G D O RF
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( y Opinion on th i s point is : In order to make
children reasonable and put them i n the way Of a
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g e st in
g the other which for
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that very reason inspire
the desire fo r i nquiry through the mental necessity of
compl etion and facility in putting together separate
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Obj ects .
confirmed ) .
. to
an d lea rn in g .
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moments Of depression ”
People have no mind for it
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and answer back ,
T hey won t do it
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But Pope Bon i
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said ,
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I n ever shou ld have believed it I am sure Of .
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buried .
78 I E X P ER I ME NTS
. AT ST AN z AN D BURGD ORF
use of th a
t which nature does in all ways fo r his d e vel
op me n t ) .
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l ish e d school institute or orphan s home
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principles I will sacr ifice for this end my tim e and all
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cises.
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K rii si ,
whom I first learnt to know spent his youth ,
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an d c hasti sin g with the rod when the tasks were not
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possible before .
t e lligib l e sounds So c r
at iz m g 1 s essentially i mp o ssible
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To
not observed when half awake that the hawk and the
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catechize .
88 .
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less conceal it from himself that if a teachers sem i nary
be a thing that must raise every village schoolmaste r
to this height in the art of questioning such a seminary ,
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appa ren tly ripe before the time but rather would hold it
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their own eyes the obj ect o n which they Should expr es s
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PE ST A L OZZ I S ’
V I Ews 89
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more and more that his way was not among books so ,
s e t it working .
s ence
. He felt less and less capable of what Fischer
e xpected of him without his p ersonal pre s ence and
agreed .
To
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an d ye t at every moment private people sent particular
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be go od , just because I did all I could t o remove o u t
of the way the first hindrances to goo dness t h at we rein
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are pleasing 2 5
I have said fearlessly : Take care to
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this plan not eru dition but only hea lthy human un der
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but only lead them by this method Before when .
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y writing
work and that I should be very glad if it were possible
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e c as
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y In an
house in Basle .
f ollowing
1 00 II PE ST A L OZZ I S ASSIST A NTS AT B UR G D O RF
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capable of s u ch a feeling .
all ages .
ing mother
T O BL ER C O ME S To B UR G D O RF 1 03
founded upon it .
the inner parts Of his subj ect Of instruc tion into por
1 04 II PE ST A L OZZ I S ASSIST A NTS A T BURGD O RF
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V I EW
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T OELE R ’
S OE
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S W O RK 1 07
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in the possibility of improvin g the human ra ce .
III
You have now read T o b l e r s and K ru si s Op i n i on of
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110 III PE ST A L OZZ I S ASSIST A NTS A T BURGD O RF
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not yet co me .
Of
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s e lf appre n t ic e to a bookbinder
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peets to reach which I had spent a great part of my
youth Yet I nourished the hope Of earning through
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s.
1 14 III PE ST A L OZZ I S ASSIST A N T S A T BUR G D O RF
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steps ,
en a blin g
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men by his metho d to help themselves, sin ce , as he
helps them, help them
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sa ys, on Go d s ea rth n o on e or can .
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anything of the principles on which that art was
founded .
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p arts,
and by analyzing their parts to units that can
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be seen and compared .
every line that they can draw perfectly for Obj ects the ,
his patience
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principles
After I had o vercome this difficulty I recognized ,
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I felt especially how men who have been taught to
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1 22 III PES TAL O ZZ I S ASS I S TANT S AT BUR G D O RF
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é 6 of their contents
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. . No w I was sensibly conscious
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guage .
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s elf and the human race that I had long before this
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s pite of the yearnings of my heart .
Friend you have now learned to know the men who
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are still working with me ; but I did not have them when
I first came here I did not look for them at first
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1 26 IV . T HE L AW S OF TE ACH IN G
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faint hearted h a
- lf measures adopted in my discourage
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might easily arise might here and there even have the
effect Of making the poor children take a second dose
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g r o w t h jo f the old .
C onsider
how mother Nature with the uprising
shoot also develops the germ of t h e root and burie s ,
very heart Of the stem and the branches from the very ,
j e c t,
e ven to the outermost in one l i v ln
g proportionate
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whole .
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r ipe fruit fallen untimely from the tree
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heterogeneous .
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pe n e n c e .
fold source .
2 To every sense i m
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- pression perfectly and indelibly
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1 36 V . T H E T H REE SO U R CE S OF K NO WL ED G E
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p ortion as the obj ects of the world that reach his sense
impressions approach the ce ntre in Which he Spins and
we aves [ for the most part wit h Cu t his h elp ]
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have succeeded .
the moment what was really necessary for the subj ect ,
dred steps .
Every
line every measure every word said I t o
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derived
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The world said I in this reverie
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lies before our
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within you clear and plain than all that is without you .
is contained within it .
Again I fo u ,
nd that all other qualities can be in
cluded under these elementary points ; that couse
quently in instructing children all othe r qualities
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language .
2 . From the in defin ite simple sen suo us—power offo rmin g
,
forms .
f
o ima gin a tion , from which must be derived con
S CI Ou sn e SS of unity and with it the power of
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SOU N D
This leads to the following special means Of in st ru c
I . So un d teachin g, 4 6
or training the organs of
speech .
1 . SO U N D T E A CH I N G
Is divi ded i n to teaching sounds spoken and sounds ,
sung .
early as possible .
by constant repetition 4 8
even before he is able to
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of obj ects and pictures that lie before the eyes of the
infant can be as little a matter of in difi e re n c e as the
sounds that are brought to his ears I have pre pa re d a
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pare for and make his future rea ding easy just as by ,
every word that the child sh ould use about the obj ec t
represented is expressed so exactly that even the mos t
unpra ctised mother can work sufficiently for my pur
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a lone .
Garden e Ga rden er
— Then by taking away the let
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word backwards .
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instruction founded upon t h e po we r of making sounds
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3 L AN G U A G E T E A CH I N G
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to l ea
d the children to a clear consciousness of thes e
generalizations This book contains a comprehensiv e
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tr ouble to themselves .
f things
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eel ,
slippery worm like leather skinned ,
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fi , e sandy loamy manured fertile
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r o fit a
p
ble unprofitable ,
1 . Descripti ve geography .
2 . History .
Physical science
3 . .
4 Natural history
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signs .
Aalen 3 ,
Allendorf 5
. Altona 1 0 ,
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Ab e rt h ran 1 1 Al sc h au fe n 3
, Altranstadt 9
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Acken ,
Alsleben 1 0 Altwasser 1 3 ,
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Adersbach 1 1 Alt b u n z l au 1 1
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Amberg 2 .
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Agler 1 ,
Altena 8
. Ambras 1 ,
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Ahrbergen 1 0 Altenau 1 0 ,
Am oneburg 6
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Aigremont 8 Altenberg 9 ,
Andernach 6
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Ala 1
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. Altenburg 9 , .
afar Off and it will fan the coal ; gradually the wet
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ideas .
c
. Teaching the child to disti nguish clearly by speech
the connection of obj ects with each other in their ,
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o f ideas .
IDE A S M A DE C L E AR B Y L AN G U A G E 1 71
Without let ting fall a word about forms and rules let ,
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Tailors can se w .
Fell a t re e x
Bin d a sheaf etc ,
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last .
I shall .
I Shall preserve .
e st moderation .
After ll
tha t I have suffered in my illness I Shall
a ,
He Shall preserve et c ,
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Fo r example
A b ll is a wide thick round bowl open below
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right or vertic al .
horizontal position .
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To co u rtesy is to le t t h e
_ body be lowere d by bending
the knee .
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Language is an art it is an infinite art or rather it ,
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B u t every one agrees about this Yes yes , ,
the clergy f‘
it is so ; when they come to us to
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I say again while we do this and degrade the lower
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class of Europe into word and clapper folk“
as
hardly any people have been degraded before we n ever ,
our “
word and clapper schools has preserved so ,
must proceed is ,
FO RM
The teaching of form is preceded by the conscious
ness of the sen se impression of things having form
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mm of teaching itself .
self activ
- i ty Of all my faculties ] ; f rom my strong "
g ai n In
g knowledge connects my sense impression s -
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aimed at ma kin g ideas clear .
ART OF ME A SUR IN G
T HE
presupposes an A B C of form ( A B C of An schauun g) ;
that is it presuppose s an art of Simplifying and de fin
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But it is Obvious that in art education perfect
a ccuracy of ob servation must be a result of measuring
An d comes
no w question W hat means have
t he —
human right .
In
g which are developed naturally and easily in t h e
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half oval ,
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u r e me n t .
in
g these forms themselves by which the children ,
ART OF DR A W IN G
THE
is the power of representing to oneself the sense
impression ma de by any obj ect its outline and the ,
accurately .
uring .
t e mpt.
T HE ART W R ITI N G
OF
art of measuring .
from all sides The mo thers of this coun try will n ever do
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it
. An d not only men Of the people but even men wh o ,
gathereth h e r chickens bu t ye wo u ld n o t
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n o thin
gfo r the eo l
p p ;e and t h e individuals who to day -
and the people far below them in the valley ; but they
a re mistaken I n both ; and are like poor apes hindered ,
therefore mu st come down from their misera ble woo den legs ,
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Sa
y ,
F ather , forgive them ; for they kn ow n ot wha t they
do .
204 V III SEC ON D EL EME N TA RY
. ME AN S : FO RM
Books .
ARYME A N S : FO RM
the task to think and add what obj ects with in his own
,
l o wm g examples
as before .
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AR IT HME TI C
arises e n tirely from simply putting togethe rand se pa
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learn by heart three and four make seven
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and
then build upon this seven as if we really knew that
,
this book contain a series of Obj ects that give the child
a clear sense impression of one ,t wo t h re e etc up to
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. EL EME NTA R Y ME A N S : NUM B ER
ten Then I let the children look for those obj ects
.
ble how easy the art itself may be made to the child
b y this firmly based preparation through sense i m pres -
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left ? The child counts finds nine and answers , , ,
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Wh en I take one away from ten nine are left ”
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etc .
etc .
follows
If for example we add 1 and 2 are 3 an d 2 are 5
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se nse impression
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will be incredibly easy to him b e
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contained in it .
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. EL EME N TA R Y ME A N S : NUM BER
into 2 4 6 8 1 0 1 2 1 4 1 6 1 8 2 0 parts
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those in , , , ,
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each space of the first row is one stroke In each of t h e
"
( )
2 Table of Simple Fractions ; and ( )
3 Table of C o m
po und Fractions as here described The plate on the
,
.
a bso lu te
f o un da ti on o f a ll kn owle dge
. Apart from all
specia l tea chin g I have sought to discover the n a tu re of
go ld e n he a d is like the
,
feet
,
of this gigantic image the ,
word know
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ledge easy fell into a kind of dizzy quack ~
, ,
the gilded giddy pate of our culture could not pos sibly
,
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which we n o w are .
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him .
tacle the m
,
other showing the world to her infant , was
presented to its eyes ; the Art has don e n o thin g ha s verily ,
spectacle .
Dear G essner ,
I will here quote for you the pass age
that expressed this feeling ab out o u r Art more than a
year ago 7 1
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2 30 XI . SE N SE -IM PRESS I O N M A DE AN ART
. .
THE APPE NZ E L L B I RD 2 31
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made thro ugh the hea rin g is as much sen se impression for
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the child as putting obj ects before his eye and rousing a ,
s c io u sn e s s of few or many 7 2
Therefore in the Mother s .
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further help .
in
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y ,
o f t h e greatest extension .
( A n sch
) by form and number p r ece des th e art of speech ,
é
, ,
t h e simp
’
and for long they gave specia l obj ects specia l n ames .
and n a me them
‘
name
From this point speech gradually went further .
together .
f
u n orgeta ble .
2 38 XI . SE N SE -IM PRESS I ON M A DE AN ART
of
.
q u e nc e
,
s which by the greatest possible S i milarity
f o rm makes the further steps of the reading book th e
y
.
,
tions with number and time I even use for this pur .
for this same purpose all the means that Nature and
experienc e have put into my hand for the clearin g u p
o f ideas
je c,
t as well as from their artificial construct io n
FOLL OW N AT UR E S P LAN ’
243
resulting from it ?
Y es ,friend . I know that for a long long tim e
7 7
,
The causes for this are many and deep seated The -
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, f ,
m
,
the h u man mind are left asleep and when words are, .
—
is but on e and this is the one that rests entirely upon
the eternal laws of Nature But of ba d methods there
.
7 9
well know that this one good method is neither
I
in my hands nor in any other man s ; that we can only ’
in words .
, ,
.
,
s ,
HI N C I LLrE L AC RY MrE .
In
rainy weather t o adst o o l s grow fast on every dung
heap ; and in the same way definitions not founded on
s ense impression produce j u
-
st as quickly a fungus , ,
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produces me n wh o believe they have reached the end
'
in all subj ects because their life i s a tiresome babble
,
sued it because all their life it has not had that at t rac
,
, .
t h e human will .
n at i o ii
it is impossible that the physical part of our
‘
i ks
S n .That is true of lifeless nature as of living .
not by any means the best way to turn him without care
into a wo od or meadow where trees and plants of all
kinds grow together Neither trees nor plants here
.
:
a
clear ideas you must with great care first put befor e
,
his eyes visibly and distinctly those Obj ects (in every
, ,
If you neglect this you lead the child at the very first
,
of its origin in m
,
in this light .
once covered it
Yes friend ; it is my fault I feel it deeply and
, .
,
—
termine to raise myself above my fate if that can be
called a determination which I did not carry out .
world !
No te for the New Edition
I read this letter written twenty years ago with
, ,
hast had pity for the crushed worm ; Thou Thou alo ne ,
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its sublime power I see the mark of the ext ernal lim
,
( 26 7 )
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2 68 XIII . IM PO R T AN OE OF PR A C TI C A L SK ILL
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, , ,
upon .
our in m o st n at u re .
py
h sm a l ; and in man whose nature is also physical
, ,
, ,
thi s respect also the Art m ust take the cul tivation of
,
li stbrichtun sverderben
>
degeneracy or decadence caused
g ,
individuals .
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275
e
f ac ilit at e pro vi de and Secure to the state all that it
, ,
HERE I S A GRE AT G AP *
( F ert
) presuppose rests on the
,
deep rooted m echa -
of l OV 6
. PES TAL OZZI
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278 XIII . IM PO R T ANCE OF PR A C TI C A L SK ILL
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9 2
Every
kind of instruction or education every kind ,
w must
e see k t h e sources
the infinite evil of our
Of
po w er of doin
g to the re co gn itio n of la w just as the educa ,
i nto the blood and veins before the hot desire s for
,
»
i n life depe nd But I will not end my lette rs without
.
t h rO
A w myself in His arms and feel blesse d when I love
m
,
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m
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( 283)
28 4 X IV . MORAL EDUC ATI O N
his mo ther .
child cea ses to bea t wood and ston e NOW the mo the r .
. . ,
developed .
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g
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esse n ce of the natural germ Of that state of mind
TH E IDE A OF G OD
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germ which is produced by the infant s dep endence on ’
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r1 h t now for Go d s sa ke as he formerly did right for
g ,
his m o ther s sa ke
’
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f
the in clin a tion to the foundations are
a ithd i s in Go d, -
bling u s . .
and obedience wa s
a simple result of t h e cOi n ci den ce o
in stin ctive feelin gs betwee n mother and child so the ,
use all your art and all your power to keep the fee
of love gratitude trust and Obe dience pure in you
, , ,
child .
y o u nd n
metho ds
,
f
o mula tin g them,
sti an d to let the a ttra ctio n s
'
Nto G od
s first creat ion but this world decoys the
’
mo ther .
suppor
t of yo ur hea rt .
-
g
ful fille d .
9 7
( 29 6)
2 98 XV . RE L I G I OUS E DU C ATI ON
p ling brook in
,
the branch e s of the trees l n the splen ,
,
b een bewildered if he had not learne d to k now it -
s o Often from the day of his birth the voice that f rom ,
p o we r an d love,
.
.
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302 XV .
fe e lin g l mpe l s
’ ‘
Go d becomes my n a ture -
I am a child of G o d ; I b e .
,
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m
,
y ain deception .
’
me Go d s will and the best and n o blest that I can
—
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tion .
”
An d the more I follow Him t h e more I love ,
,
t he way of the Lord I have rea d the l aws Of the Al
,
a witne s s Of my immortality .
faith .
W h at is dim t o t h e w i sd o m o f t h e wi se
I s c l e ar a n d si mpl e u n to c hi l d li k e e y e s .
, , ,
t h e good man — b ig
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31 0 T HE ME T H O D
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do when he made alterations But there is reason .
S e e pp 31 3 31 4
.
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their firSt
expres si on It comes between the First
w
.
—
value nothing qu ite free from the infl u ence of helpers
,
”
how the idea germinated in him It presents .
,
”
had . But De Gu imps is mistaken The first edition of .
é
!
. .
con clu sio n Of the Report but his last two paragraph s
,
lozzi-bla tter
that it would be well to reprint it The .
(p
.
lines as a patte rn .
T HE MET HOD
it
Nature indeed,
does much
,
for the human race but ,
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i s t h ru st away from he r bosom , a n d t h e r ich des troy
t
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( 31 5 )
31 6 e
T HE ME T H O D
,
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re l se s .
that is as concepts
,
.
l
u p before me the sea of confused phenomena An sch
( )
flo wm g one into another first as defi nite sense impres
,
-
their likeness .
to the complex .
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1 1 Above all learn the first law of the physic al
.
,
virtue .
, ,
disproportionate strength .
maintain all the parts of the subj ect even to the out ,
, ap
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f
bring the elements of every art into harmony with th e
very natu re of my mind by following the psyc h o l o gi
,
-
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.
,
it out .
Supplement NO -
. 1 contains the lette r T of this
AB 0 book .
- exa
had be fo re .
S an d ask Ho w do y o u s ay th at ? An s w e r S
, ,
th e n 0 n ow ? SO
4
3
L S OL
D S O LD
A S O LDA
T S OLDAT
S OLDAT E
S O LDAT EN
ST S OLDATE NS T
an d SO OD .
No 3
. .
single word But sound and t one are deeply impre ssed
.
mean .
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aesthetic .
c ulat in
g .
the child is .
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in his m o ther and upon this trust has foun ded willing
,
of all Nature .
336 THE ME TH O D
‘
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brute .
ations by
which the natural man can be more surely raise d t o
’
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, ,
mother s heart’
.
another ,
an d ask
1 and 1 are ? 2
2 1 3
3 1 4
1 19 ? 18 .
3 2 ? 5 .
5 2? 7, etc .
2 97 9 95 .
4 3 7 up to 1 00 an d b ac k again .
Then 2 3 5 .
5 a 8 up t 0 1 00 e t c
‘
T he n l 4 5 .
5 4 9 up to 1 00 etc .
SPEC I ME N S OF T HE SU RPLE ME N T S 339
Then 3 4 7 etc .
Then 1 5 6 etc .
I go on further to
Ho w many times
‘
An d so on up to
. and then backwards
1 00
No 4 G old fin c h
. .
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Silver gilt Almond tree - -
.
Paris ,
1 8 05 . Ed 2 , 1 8 09
. .
c e iv ed on Sept 22 1 7 9 9 .
, ,
wounded soldiers in t h e
street Preacher ph il o so .
,
1 7 68 4 vols
, Se e G p 306 . .
, . .
( B ec k ; and G p .
, .
5 ( p 32 ) Ed 1 pp 3 4 instead of
,
.
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,
But I was.
, ,
y o u n g etc h as the f o ll
. o,wIn
g b e g 1 n n i n
g with the
o ft q uoted passage not in E d 2
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Long years I lived
,
. .
”
men etc , ( S e e G . cha p v pp 2 6— 3 8 . for
,
account . . .
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of
6 ( p — The first volume of this work appe red
. a
1 7 8 1 and was a great s u ccess
, In the form of a story .
.
, ,
Pestalozzi s mother ( G pp 2
’
and Elizabeth Naef
. .
—Herbart as early as Ma
7 ( p 4 1 ) .
y ,1 8 01 promised , ,
t al o z z i ( Letter , Jan 2 8 . .
,
1 60 . S
( ye ffa rt h I n tro du ction
) H e founded
,
the S ociety .
in France 37 years .
1 888 . G
( , p The
,
first
. edition of W ie G ertru d
- .
C O N D ITI O N OF SW I SS TE A CH ERS 34 7
s‘-
instruction consisted in teaching the children to read
in a mechanical tedious m anner and in hearing the
, ,
inf
writing ,
”
q uestion s because he could not writ e yer
y well g
n o school
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earns his bread by bricklaying He used
,
.
g
”
arden and is a
,
rope maker -
.
remains .
. . . . .
,
”
do with miracles real or pretended ,
.
l é du ca tion
’
He hit the nail on the head and put t h e
.
’
,
of my purpose ”
Pestalozz i soon afterwards foun d . .
Mechanical ”
became s o metimes s
py c h o l o gi c a
35 0 N OT ES ,
1 4— 1 9
draw from copies even the usual dead copi e s ; but copie s
,
1 6 ( p 6 1 ) E d 1 p 39
.
— I cease describing les t
.
, . .
,
1 7 (p 6 ) Ed 1 p 4 2
4 .
— .
si bl y too
,
somethi n g may be said in favor of such test
,
exe rcises .
19 ( p 68 ) —.Fischer‘
1 7 7 2 1 8 00 wa s a pupil of
—
, ,
S alzmann in Schnepfenthal,
W a s appo inted Secretary .
1 8 00 .
20 ( p 68) —
St e in mii ll e r took great interest in Pesta
.
th O
u gh t , mental power and exp ression by mea ns o f ,
questions ”
He obj ected to Fischer s Socratizing b e
.
’
24 ( p . 88) — Ed 1 ,
p 77
. With time and industry
. .
,
”
subj ects .
25 ( p p 84
. 9 ) Ed 1 ,
2 —
I h ave said fe arless
. .
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26 ( p. 9 6 ) E d 1—p 8 8 A ll.these,
views con. .
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2 7 (p . 9 9) — Tobler ,
Johann G eorg 1 7 69— 1 8 4 3 , ,
Au s se rh o de n went to Basle
, ,
1 7 9 2 to be trained for t h e
,
JO H
i m
— ‘
1769 —1 843
l
L ,
2 8 ( p 1 02 ) Slates
— . Pestalozzi was led by his lim .
p ractical invention
‘
made writing drawing and arith ,
”
we wer e given only slates and red chalk ( Ram .
sauer s account ; G p
’
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,
.
30 ( p 1 08 ) Ed 1 p 1 07
— Show Wielan d “
m
,
. . . .
In it he says
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33 ( p 1 2 0) Ed 1 p 1 2 6
—. Ho w men have lan
.
, . .
3 (
4 p 1 2 ) Ed 1 p 1 2 7
1 —. However I estimated
.
,
. .
,
”
art teaching how it might be possible
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etc ,
.
35 ( p . 1 2 3) —
p 1 29 Which a
Ed 1 ,
.lone make . .
“
hands only
Richter says W e see even this account of one of
, ,
”
l imited to forms of expression Yes they are often .
,
explain them .
36 ( p . 1 24 ) -
Rousseau , Jean Jacques 1 7 1 2—1 7 8 7 ,
.
”
twelve years he says himself ,
his heart made hot ,
“
cuse editio n ) pp 1 4 1 —1 8 2 ,
. .
”
obeying her Employ the child s activity
. Let it ’
.
doing develop it .
36 2 N OT ES ,
39 - 44
t hat even his old pla ns for educating the people began
t o wither But this Report marks a new epoch He
. .
Gertru d .
41 ( p . E d 1 p 1 4 5 — This physical
.
,
nearness
. .
-
n ot .
( F C T ) . . .
PES T AL OZ ZI S USE ’
OF
“
FO RM ”
36 3
43 —
( p
. 1 3 6 ) Ed . 1 p , 1 5 0 . This . mechanism of
y our nature .
2 As opposed to matter
. .
M M
—
-
Schi ller .
( )
a M odel type
, Urfo.rm prototype ,
.
( )
b M ethod imposed by the facts of human nature .
used it .
tion .
by form nu m
,
,
ber and speech to a comprehensive con
,
’
u n d K o selieder .
51 ( p 1 66)
.
— Ed 1 p 1 9 6 . What does it say of
,
. .
5 2 ( p 1 7 7 ) Ed 1 p 2 1 2
— To fall is to move
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,
. . .
—
5 4 ( p 1 7 7 ) Ed 1 p 2 1 2
. I should try to con
.
,
. .
5 5 ( p 1 7 8 ) Ed 1 p 2 1 3
— . But if the state al
.
,
. .
56 ( p .
— Ed 1 p 2 1 6
.
; . . To teach the humble
37 0 N OT ES , 5 8- 6 4
der that the Christianity of this cent ury and this lan d
looks as it dOe s ; on the c o ntrary it is wonderful tha t ,
”
repeated .
60 ( p . 1 8 2 )— Se yffarth
e n ds Letter V II here ; h is .
of An schauun g is given on pp 7— 1 4 . .
62 ( p 1 8 6 ).
— The five paragraphs which follow are
not in Nie de re r s version of The Report of the Metho d
’
.
6 3 (p 1 87) . Measurement
“ ”
C ompare this with .
fini shes his inaccu rate drawing to the end and his mind ,
is o to be characterized as
t m l h r m f l— it i s
‘
u
'
n r
e e y a f
”
ruinous . Laws of Féso le Preface pp vii ,
viii Pes ,
. .
,
.
64 ( '
p 1 8 9 ).
— These measuring forms are the square s -
65 ( p 1 9 1 )
. F irst oval half oval etc ,
In Let , ,
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“
t e r III ovals or elongated forms of the circle are
’
Pad Schriften ii
. Pestalozzi has not un derstood
,
.
— ”
( p ) Pestalozzi s narrow sense seems
’
66 2 1 9 .
7l ( p 2 2 8 ) this — If
passage i from Th M h d it is
”
. s e e t o
only “
What Pestalozzi meant ”
says J H Fichte , . .
j h h if No 2 7 This is really wh a t P
’
a r ssc r t 1 .
,
e s
'
”
t al o z z i m e an t b y his art of sense impression Richter -
,
for our mind The child must know its form before he
.
(p M mm
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73 . 2 39 )
p 301 —
y g ra Ed 1 ,
a r i.s only .
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p ressions to clear ideas .
?
ART SE N SE IM PRESS I O N
'
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37 5
74 (f l . 24 1 )p 3—
03 Ed 1 ,
But I
. am convinced . .
and have C ome with decision to rej ect all hal f measures ,
75 ( p 2 4 2 ) —E d 1 p 304 A d i all i
“ ’
. .n s n c
, e n . .
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fer the youngest chil dren .
7 6 ( p : 2 4 2 ) Ed 1 p 305 -
Will there be even
.
, . .
77 ( p 2 3) Ed 1 p 305
4.
— Yes friend there
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,
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,
7 8 (p 24 .4 ) — Ed 1
p 306 S uch .pupils
,
never . .
7 84
9 —
80 ( p 2 5) Ed 1 p 307 I have o n e ru l e in “
4.
— .
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_
81 p 2 5)
.4 — E d 1 p 308 Can be n o t h l n g b u t
.
,
. .
8 2 ( p 2 4 6 ) Ed 1 p 31 0
.
—
In this way and n o
.
,
. .
impres sion .
8 3 ( p 2 4 9 ) —E d 1 pp 31 4— 31 6
. You must dis
.
,
. .
by no kind of guardianship .
8 5 (p —
.
) E
2 69 d 1 , p 332 I see I n it the id eal of
. . .
, ,
, 4
8 6 (p
-
2 7 0) — .E d 1 p 335 . Thought
, .and actio n .
8 7 ( p 2 7 1 ) Ed 1 p 336
.
-
. Mechan i cal laws
,
. .
Ed 1 p 32 4
.
, . The indivi dual man has not lost
.
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90 ( p 2 .
—
7 8 ) Ed 1 p 34 3. But these are Of n o
,
. .
9 1 ( p 2 7 8 ) Ed 1 p 34 5
.
-
. These consideration s
,
. .
9 2 ( p 2 7 9 ) Ed 1 p 34 6
.
-
. Every ki n d of in
, . .
9 3 (p .
— Ed 1 p 347 ' An d On its line s
.
,
.
“
9 4 ( pi 8 0) Ed
2 — 34 7
. In this way the only .
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CH AN GES FR O M FI RS T ED ITI O N 3831 ,
.
—
9 5 ( p 2 8 0 Ed 1 p 34 7 . Therefore it is that . .
, .
9 6 (p .
— Ed 1 p 35 3 .
,
It is not a simple re
. . .
97 ( p 2.9 —
6 ) E d 1 p 37 0 . Friend if my metho d
, . .
,
Burgdo rf .
38 6 HO W G E RTRUD E T E ACH E S H ER CH I L DREN
Pa ge
child d ifficul tie s o f
. e c
ffe t o chi g wo rd s
f te a 240 n
fe t te re d by c a t e chizi n g e l e me n t a ry re a di g 327 n
give s up mo t h e r fo r t h e e d a d me a s of l a gu a g e
n n n 16 1 n
wo rld e s s e t i a l e l e me n t s
n 323
t ra i i n g of v s a ccid e n t a l qu a li t i e s
"
n 28 1 . 1 36 252 ,
d pe n d e n t o n s e n se i mp re s
e - E v e n i n g H ou r O f a He rmi t 342
s io n e v e ry ma n h i s S p e ci a l wo rk 27 8
f ro m s e se i m p re s sio n
n - e x e rci s e s i n li n e s a n gle s a d n
s t re n g t h e n e d by s e e i n g curv e s
cl e ar k n owl e dge e xp e ri me n t s a t S t a n z a n d B urg
cl e a r s s d e p n d e t n e a r e s s l 43
ne e n o n n . do rf 2 9 80 -
coi cid e n ce of i n s t i n ct iv e fe e l
n
i gs
n 288 Fas c h
comm o n origi n of all me t hod s of fe a r of Go d the . ke yst on e of in
i n st ruct io n s tr uct io n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 335
comp l e t e O b se rv at io n fu n d a me n t Fe r tigk ei t . 1 4, 15
al me a n i n g s as h e re t ra n s late d
co mpou n d fra c t io n s ,
u se
'
of abili t y 27 0 27 5 2 7 6 , ,
cou n t i g fro m re a l
n a c t io n s
C u rwe qn ,
. a c t ivi t i e s O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ca p a bilit ie s O O O O O O O O O O
5
O O O O O O O O O O O
di st i n ct k owl e dg e
n c a p a ci t i e s
d a g e s o f l a n gua ge
n r e xp e ri m e n t
d e fi n i n g i s s p ci a lizin g e e xp re s s io n
d e fi n it io n s be fore s e n se i mp re s - f a cul t ie s
s io n ma n ife s t a t io n s
u s e of powe r
De G u i m ps s L ife o f Pe s t a lozzi
’
powe r of doi g 12 27 0 27 1 27 6 2 80 n .
, , , ,
of mora l se n t i me n t . r e a di n e s s 14
o f p ri n cipl e s i n e duc a t io n 67 s kill 1 4 233 27 1 37 9
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