Pestalozzi Quotes

You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.

Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly,” Pestalozzi wrote, and “the learning of numbers and language must be definitely subordinated.” 58

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

In its purity this life [in the home circle] is the highest, the most exalted that can be thought or dreamed of for the education of our race. It is unconditionally true: where love and the ability to love are found in the home circle there one can confidently predict that the education it affords almost never fails.

Bir şeyi ne denli az anlarsan, o denli çok saygı gösteriyor, onun karşısında boyun eğiyorsun. Hitler'i Nietzsche'den, Napolyon'u da Pestalozzi'den daha iyi tanıyorsun. Sana göre bir kral, Sigmund Freud'dan daha önemlidir.

It was a perfect school for Einstein. The teaching was based on the philosophy of a Swiss educational reformer of the early nineteenth century, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who believed in encouraging students to visualize images. He also thought it important to nurture the “inner dignity” and individuality of each child. Students should be allowed to reach their own conclusions, Pestalozzi preached, by using a series of steps that began with hands-on observations and then proceeded to intuitions, conceptual thinking, and visual imagery. 56 It was even possible to learn—and truly understand—the laws of math and physics that way. Rote drills, memorization, and force-fed facts were avoided.

Learning by head, hand and heart

Želimo li promijeniti ljude, moramo ih ljubiti. Naš utjecaj seže samo donde dokle seže naša ljubav.

Einstein loved Aarau. “Pupils were treated individually,” his sister recalled, “more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality.” It was the opposite of the German education that Einstein had hated. “When compared to six years’ schooling at a German authoritarian gymnasium,” Einstein later said, “it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority.”57 The visual understanding of concepts, as stressed by Pestalozzi and his followers in Aarau, became a significant aspect of Einstein’s genius. “Visual

Pestalozzi.

Johann Pestalozzi, a Swiss education reformer, once described teachers as ‘God’s chosen profession’. Teachers are well paid and revered in Swiss society.

Ele estava ali — foram se aglomerando em volta dele —, e um disse: "Então você se tornou mais um pintor! Teria sido bem melhor se ficasse remendando nossos sapatos". Ele respondeu-lhes: "Eu os teria remendado, teria carregado pedras por vocês, por vocês teria ido buscar água — teria morrido por vocês —, mas vocês não me quiseram e no vácuo forçado de minha existência espezinhada não me restou nada senão aprender a pintar".

His early reading took him from Flavel’s Keeping the Heart to Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, to Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, to Robert Owen’s A New View of Society. This last was an extreme rationalist work, maintaining, almost as B. F. Skinner would later, that since we are born empty or blank we can be taught anything at all, if given early and complete enough training. Owen claimed he could teach a tiger if he got it early enough.1 From Owen Alcott moved on to Pestalozzi, the great Swiss educator who laid the foundation for modern primary education. Fired with enthusiasm for teaching, Alcott abandoned peddling and opened the first of a series of schools. In 1828 he came to Boston to teach, heard Emerson, and married Abigail May. In 1830 he went to Germantown, Pennsylvania, where over the next three and a half years he both kept school and did his serious reading. In 1833 he discovered and was instantly converted to Platonism. He marked the day in red on his calendar, a distinction used otherwise only for his marriage, the birth of his daughters, the opening of the Civil War, and the death of Lincoln. He also read Carlyle, Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection, Proclus, Plotinus (in Thomas Taylor’s edition), Herder, Swedenborg, a life of Boehme, and two books on Kant.2

On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

Mientras estuvo Rodríguez en Europa, el pedagogo vivo de mayor entidad y prestigio fue el suizo Enrique Pestalozzi. ¿Influyó algo en el venezolano, que pasó por siete países dando clases en un lapso de más de tres lustros? No pudo ni ignorarlo, ni haber dejado de estudiarlo, sobre todo durante su estada, que no fue fugaz, en Alemania y Prusia, zonas donde el método pestalozziano se divulgó rápida y sólidamente. También en París estuvo Pestalozzi; no logró establecer ahí un centro, pero su discípulo Maine de Biram creó uno, en 1808.

Hay una página de Pestalozzi digna de incrustarse en el ir de Rodríguez: su ensayo en Stanz. Era un establecimiento con sesenta y dos alumnos y sólo cincuenta camas; el director, ayudado por su esposa e hija, haciendo día y noche de profesor, enfermero y hasta criado de los niños; todo, en un medio social de mayoría católica que le calificaba al educador de hereje y servidor de un gobierno extranjero.

Korkarım sevgili Alpbach'ımızın bu muhteşem güzelliği, doğanın ve insan elinin, vatan sevgisi ve insanın çalışkanlığının bu mükemmel uyumu beni, giriş sözlerimi biraz duygusal ve romantik şekillendirmeye yönlendirdi, bu nedenle kendimi, bu duygusal ve romantik giriş sözlerini hemen ikinci bir girişle romantizme, özellikle de felsefedeki romantizme karşı tavır alarak düzeltmek zorunda hissediyorum. Bu ikinci girişe kendim hakkında itiraflarla başlamak istiyorum. Hepsinden önce aşağıda söyleyeceklerimin imanla kabullenilmemesi benim için büyük değer taşıyor. Tam tersine bunların büyük kuşkuyla karşılanmasını diliyorum. Felsefeci arkadaşlarımın çoğu gibi ben de yeni patikalarda gezinen bir önder değilim; felsefede yeni bir yönelimin bildiricisi değilim. Tersine fazlasıyla eski moda bir filozofum, tamamen eskimiş ve aşılmış bir felsefeye inanıyorum. Bu, çoktan geçmiş bir çağın, usçuluk ve Aydınlanma çağının felsefesidir. Usçuluğun ve Aydınlanma'nın son takipçilerinden biri olarak, insanın bilgi aracılığıyla kendini özgürleştirmesine inanıyorum, tıpkı Aydınlanma'nın son büyük filozofu Kant ya da yoksulluğa karşı bilgiyle savaşan Pestalozzi gibi. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)