raghuvamśam of kālidāsa - A Lover Of Children

A Lover Of Children

By emphasizing that which every child had in common, not that which spearated them, Pestalozzi manitained that his methed could help everyone in every stage of development.

From this summary of pestalozzi's general principles, the humanizing and mechanizing elements in his theories should have become clear. By ordering knowledge and experiences, he hoped to find an ideal way in which to teach children, and methods which would prove universally applicable. At the same time by continually stressing that education was for the child and not the child for education, he showed that the needs of the individual child had to be taken into account. Education was to become at the same time more human and more scientific.

From Michael 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.

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