Johann Pestalozzi

Kacey Carlson and Abbie Zuzek

Brief Life History

• Born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland in 1746

• Attended school at University of Zurich

• First studied politics, then turned to education

• What started it all? Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas on the education of children

Pestalozzi’s Mission

• “Emphasizes the importance of providing a loving family type environment in which the child can grow and flourish naturally, becoming a whole person balancing their intellectual, physical, and technical ability, with emotional, moral, ethical, and religious growth” (New World Encyclopedia)

Goals of Education

• Focus on the child as a human being

• Development of the individual

• Improvement of society

Method of Education

• Knowledge already lies within the student; the teacher has to find it and bring it to the surface

Discipline in the Classroom

• Developed the idea of the family method– What does this mean?

• Loving atmosphere• People are cooperative• Christian family

values/morals instilled within the students

• Abolished flogging

Pestalozzi’s 6 Principles of Schooling

1. Personality is sacred2. Each child has the

promise of potential within him

3. Love the students as a family

4. Direct concrete obeservation aka “object lessons”

5. Perception must be perfected by appropriate actions

6. Action leads to an emphasis on repetition

Object Learning Activity

Object Learning

• What is object learning?– Exercises in learning

form, number, and language• So you traced for learning

form, you numbered for numbering, and you named it for language

• Make your hand into a picture

Object Learning

• What’s up with the picture?– Progressed from the

simple lessons of learning form, number, and language to more advanced lessons in:• Drawing• Writing• Math• Reading

Wrap-up

• Unfortunately, as good of an idea that these schools were, disputes arouse amongst the teachers

• This lead to the schools eventually failing and closing