A biographical sketch of the struggles of Pestalozzi, to establish his system of education; by an Irish traveller [OSynge].1815 |
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Página 23 - ... sanguine hopes. In a short time were seen above seventy children, taken almost all from a state of poverty, living together in peace and friendship, full of affection for one another, and with a cordiality that rarely exists among brothers and sisters in numerous families. I had never given them as yet direct lessons either in religion or morality ; but when they were assembled around me, and when there was a dead silence among them, I said to them, ' When you behave thus, are you not more reasonable...
Página 25 - When Altorf was reduced to ashes, I assembled them round me, and said to them, ' Altorf is destroyed, and perhaps at this moment there are more than a hundred poor children, without clothes to cover them, without a home, or a morsel to eat. Shall we petition the government to permit us to receive twenty of them amongst us ?' Methinks I still see the eagerness with which they replied,
Página 26 - ... on your instruction, it will be necessary to labour much more than you have ever yet done : perhaps it may be necessary to divide with these strangers your victuals and your clothes ; do not say, then, you will receive them among you, if you are not sure you will be able to impose upon yourselves all these privations.
Página xviii - I avail myself of the opportunity to renew to your excellency assurances of the high consideration with which I have the honor to be, sir, your very humble and obedient servant, WILLIAM L.
Página xii - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Página 20 - In 1799," continues Pestalozzi, " my school contained nearly eighty pupils, the greater part of whom announced good dispositions, and some even first-rate abilities. Study was to them quite a novelty, and they attached themselves to it with indefatigable zeal, as soon as they began to perceive their own progress. The very children who before...
Página 24 - I would pourtray to them the picture of a peaceable and orderly family, who, having acquired easy circumstances by their labour and economy, found themselves capable of giving advice and assistance to their ignorant, unfortunate, and indigent fellow-creatures : then addressing myself to those in whom I had perceived the most lively disposition to benevolence, I would say, ' Should you not like to live like me, in the midst of the unfortunate, to direct them, and to make them useful to themselves...
Página 14 - I found myself, all painful as it was, and the absolute want of assistance, were precisely what contributed the most to the success of my enterprise. Cut off from the rest of mankind, I turned all my cares and all my affections to the children ; to me...
Página 16 - ... assistance, were precisely what contributed the most to the success of my enterprise. Cut off from the rest of mankind, I turned all my cares and all my affections to the children ; to me they were indebted for all the relief they received. I partook alike of their pains and their pleasures ; I was every where with them when they were well ; and when they were sick, I was constantly at their bedside. We had the same nourishment, and I slept in the midst of them, and from my bed either prayed...
Página 11 - Henmon, that equal ratios are discriminated in approximately equal time - packs containing cards with 1 and 2, 2 and 4, 3 and 6, 4 and 8, 5 and 10 spots all took about the same time to sort.