Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi - Zurich, Switzerland
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss educational reformer who wrote much about his revolutionary techniques which helped to eliminate illiteracy in Switzerland by 1830.
Waymark Code: WMM309
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Date Posted: 07/12/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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Wikipedia (visit link) does not discuss his writings much but does indicate that he had written at least five volumes:

"Fifth and Sixth Volumes
Pestalozzi had planned a fifth and sixth volume, but the manuscript of the fifth was lost in his 1804 trip to Paris and it is not known if a sixth was ever written."

This sculpture is located near at Pestalozziwiese near Bahnhofstrasse (the main train station).
It depicts Pestalozzi life-sized, as a middle-aged man wearing a long overcoat leaning over to help guide a young boy. The work is dated 1899 and signed. The signature could not be read by the poster of this Waymark...but a photo has been provided and perhaps a visitor will be able to provide that information which could not be found online either.
It is set on a marble(?) plinth about 10 feet tall. The plaque has his name and the dates "1746-1827".

Wikipedia has a photo of the Memorial and adds:

"Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (January 12, 1746 – February 17, 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.

He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was "Learning by head, hand and heart". Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830...

Pestalozzi was a Romantic who felt that education must be broken down to its elements in order to have a complete understanding of it. He emphasized that every aspect of the child's life contributed to the formation of personality, character, and reason based on what he learned by operating schools at Neuhof, Stans, Burgdorf and Yverdon. The success of the Yverdon school attracted the interest of European and American educators. Pestalozzi's educational methods were child-centered and based on individual differences, sense perception, and the student's self-activity. Pestalozzi worked in Yverdon to 'elementarize' the teaching of ancient languages, principally Latin, but also Hebrew and Greek. In 1819, Stephan Ludwig Roth came to study with Pestalozzi, and his new humanism contributed to the development of the method of language teaching, including considerations such as the function of the mother tongue in the teaching of ancient languages. Pestalozzi and Niederer were important influences on the theory of physical education; they developed a regimen of physical exercise and outdoor activity linked to general, moral, and intellectual education that reflected Pestalozzi's ideal of harmony and human autonomy.

Pestalozzi's philosophy of education was based on a four-sphere concept of life and the premise that human nature was essentially good. The first three 'exterior' spheres - home and family, vocational and individual self-determination, and state and nation - recognized the family, the utility of individuality, and the applicability of the parent-child relationship to society as a whole in the development of a child's character, attitude toward learning, and sense of duty. The last 'exterior' sphere - inner sense - posited that education, having provided a means of satisfying one's basic needs, results in inner peace and a keen belief in God."
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