How Gertrude Teaches Her Children — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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Epilogue to Pestalozzi's How Gertrude Teaches Her Children: AN ATTEMPT TO READ IT. BY E. COOKE. IN PREPARATION. Page 6 The text on this page is estimated to be only 26.13% accurate HOW GERTRUDE TEACHES HER CHILDREN to f AN ACCOUNT OF THE METHOD A Report to the Society of the Friends of Education, Burgdorf BY JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI TRANSLATED BY LUCY E. HOLLAND AND FRANCES C. TURNER AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY EBENEZER COOKE JT o n b o it SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. SYRACUSE, N.Y. : C. W. BARDEEN 1894 b Page 7 The text on this page is estimated to be only 17.67% accurate & TANNER, THE SELWOOD PKINTING WOKKS, FEOME, AND LONDON. Page 8 The text on this page is estimated to be only 25.67% accurate CONTENTS. PAG* EDITOR'S PREFACE . . vii INTRODUCTION xiii PREFACE 1 LETTER 1 9 LETTER II 42 LETTER III 61 LETTER IV 72 LETTER V 80 ^LETTER VI 83 VTTER VII 90 L ;TTER VIII 132 L STTER IX I . . 139 3TTER X 144 LETTER XI 163 LETTER XII 170 LETTER XIII 181 BETTER XIV 190 APPENDIX : — AN ACCOUNT OF THE METHOD. A EEPORT . . . 199 NOTES TO PREFACE AND LETTERS .... 212 SUPPLEMENTS AND NOTE TO THE METHOD . . . 248 INDEX . 252 Page 9 The text on this page is estimated to be only 19.62% accurate ERRATA. Page 53, » 84, » 84, „ 85, 85, „ 126, „ 138, » 139, » 139, line 9, for " elements " read " principles." „ 30, for " perfecting " read " cultivating." " 3f' }for " intellect " read " understanding." „ 8, for "typical form of human" read "first form of human mental." lines 16, 18, 24, 26, for " elements " read " elementary points." line 11 ; page 139, lines 9 and 12 ; page 140, line 32 ; page 144, line 22 ; page 147, line 22 ; page 148, line 6, for " elements " reetd " elementary means." „ 17, for " sense impression " read " form." „ 6 ; page 121, line 30 ; page 144, lines 20 and 25 ; page 148, lines 3 and 10; page 149, line 23, for " observa tion " read " Anschauung." „ 14, omit " natural." „ 12,/or " origin" read " basis." „ 17, /or "by "read "in." „ 22, for " according to " read " in " or " within," and for " education " read " instruction." „ 32, for " elements " read " elementary divisions." 18") 17' \for "element" read "primary means." ^ add after " nature," [" in respect to this subject "]. ' „ 146, „ 148, „ 149, » 149, „ 150, „ 24, „ 150, „ 25, „ 150, „ 26, „ „ 17(5, „ 22,/or „ 199, last line, for " at end " read pp. 207, 208. was," "to the race.' „ " making " " many fold." „ " clear," u by the power of sound." skill " read " abilities." Page 10 The text on this page is estimated to be only 27.59% accurate EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE METHOD in time and thought precedes How Ger trude Teaches. It may be read after Letter I., for in this letter Pestalozzi gives the history and circum stances which led him to those principles he first definitely stated in The Method. The First Letter from Stanz also belongs to this period. It will be found in De Guimps' Life and in Quick's Essays on Educational Reformers. These works form a complete group, and are his most important educational works. They are undoubtedly his own ; of later works this cannot be said until we come to the Swan's Song and My Ex periences. The portions of How Gertrude Teaches in Biber's Life of Pestalozzi are all that have been translated. Its peculiar terms, such as " Anschauung," may partly account for this neglect. These terms are difficult, for apparently we do not grasp Pestalozzi's thought. We neither read nor follow him. If we walk in his ways, we may see what he saw ; if we repeat his experi ments, we may in some measure share his thought. , Doing leads to knowing. He has been blamed for not defining his terms. He gives instead the history of Ihis conception, the circumstances which led to it, its [development, and his schemes founded on it. " There Page 11 The text on this page is estimated to be only 27.74% accurate viii Editor's Preface. are two ways of instructing," he said ; " either we go from words to things, or from things to words. Mine is the second method." His meaning may become clearer if the reader will substitute " Anschauung " for " sense impression " and for all other equivalents