Word: pestalozzi
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...West Germans and a mere 9% in the East could agree with the statement "We live in a happy age." Moreover, surprisingly quirky definitions were offered when the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked, "What for you is complete happiness on earth?" The sensual, said Swiss writer Hans A. Pestalozzi: "Sex with a woman one loves under the smoldering heat of the sun." The mundane, said theater critic Georg Hensel: "Sole fried in butter." And former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt declared definitively, "There's no such thing...
Bellow has taught English and creative writing at Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College in Chicago, where he now resides, the University of Minnesota, Yale University, Bard College and Princeton. He was a Fellow of Branford College at Yale...
...Still, the main thrust of education was directed chiefly at achieving spiritual and moral purity. Fresh ideas, however, had begun to emerge. In Europe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared that education should strive to prepare a child for the world about him, not for the hereafter. Switzerland's Johann Pestalozzi urged schools to stop the "empty chattering of mere words" and help children to learn through observation, experimentation and reasoning. In the U.S., Horace Mann, contending that education could become "the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization," vastly strengthened the Massachusetts system of free public schools...
Above all, it has been a determined and powerful propagandist for the school which advocates "education of the whole child." It espoused Pestalozzi's methods, e.g., using objects as well as books, John Dewey's "learning by doing," and the current doctrine that if Johnny isn't ready to read, don't force him. To its critics, it shares the blame for the fact that some Johnnies never seem to learn to read; its supporters give it credit for the fact that many more Johnnies can learn a useful trade in their local high school...
...order to learn how to make beggars live like men." He could not pass a poorer man without giving something away, even if all he had to give was a buckle from his shoes. A Christian who had been influenced by the teachings of the Swiss reformer, Huldreich Zwingli, Pestalozzi had learned that lesson from the New Testament...