Word: yverdon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their way through Switzerland in the early 1800s, many a notable-among them Talleyrand and Madame de Stael-made a point of stopping at Yverdon. There, in an old castle, lived scores of waifs and orphans under the care of a gentle old man they all called "Father." His real name: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi...
...Love. At Yverdon, he also taught other things, some of them not so obvious in the modern pedagogical scheme. In caring for his children, he soon made himself almost as poor as they, living "like a beggar in 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...
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