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I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

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Born: January 12, 1746

Died: February 17, 1827 (aged 81)

Bio: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.

Known for:

How Gertrude teaches her children
Leonard And Gertrude
The education of man, aphorisms
Pestalozzi's Leonard and Gertrude
The Education of Man

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