A student's history of educationGraves, Frank Pierrepont
History
A student's history of education
Graves, Frank Pierrepont
Education -- History
While not original, practical, or scientific, Pestalozzi made
education the remedy for corruption in society, and started the
modern methods in the elementary studies. Pestalozzian schools and
methods spread rapidly through Europe and the United States.
The attempt to combine industrial training with intellectual, which
Pestalozzi had to give up, was continued by his friend, Fellenberg,
in his institutions at Hofwyl. Similar training was developed
throughout Europe. In the United States it stimulated the ‘manual
labor’ movement, and was later utilized as a solution for racial
and other peculiar problems in education.
[Sidenote: Development of naturalism of Rousseau by Pestalozzi.]
=Pestalozzi as the Successor of Rousseau.=--Having outlined the various
phases of philanthropic education and surveyed the development of the
common school in America, we may now turn again to the more immediate
development of the movements that found their roots in Rousseau. It has
been noted how Rousseau’s ‘naturalistic’ doctrines logically pointed
to a complete demolition of the artificial society and education
of the times. A pause at this point would have led to anarchy. If
civilization is not to disappear, social destruction must be followed
by reconstruction. Of course the negative attitude of the _Emile_ was
itself accompanied by considerable positive advance in its suggestions
for a natural training, but this advice was often unpractical and
extreme and its main emphasis was upon the destruction of existing
education. Hence the happiest educational results of Rousseau’s work
came through Pestalozzi, who especially supplemented that reformer’s
work upon the constructive side. Pestalozzi became the first prominent
educator to develop the negative and somewhat inconsistent ‘naturalism’
of Rousseau into a more positive attempt to reform corrupt society by
proper education and a new method of teaching.
[Sidenote: Example of mother and grandfather,]
[Sidenote: and early attempts to elevate the peasantry.]
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