Excerpt from Pestalozzi an Account of His Life and Work

"Oh, how true it is that the teacher without psychology does his work as badly as an old woman doctoring." Thus wrote Steinmuller in 1799, in relation to Pestalozzi"s ideas. Pestalozzi said: "I want to psychologise instruction." There is still some room for a modern Pestalozzi. Meantime much may be gained by a study of Pestalozzi"s attempts to psychologise education. A study of origins is, to a student sufficiently well prepared, a great aid to the fullest grasp of pure theory; for abstract science, so far as it is true, must proceed from and return to its simplest forms. To say the least of it, he is very much to be envied or pitied who cannot still learn something from Pestalozzi.

The aim of the present account of the life and work of Pestalozzi is to provide students, and teachers who still study, with the material for a thoughtful survey of the principles and practices of one of the greatest of the world"s pioneer educators and educationists.

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