Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (12.1.1746, Zurich, - 17/2/1827, Brugg), a Swiss teacher-Democrat, one of the founders of the didactics of primary education.

Graduated from the two courses in the Collegium Karolinum. Headed 'facility for the poor in Nijhoff' (1774-80), an orphanage in Station (1798-99), institutions in Burgdorf (1800-04) and Yverdon (1805-25). Author of numerous educational materials, of which the key players are world-famous' Lingard and Gertrude '(1781-87),' How Gertrude teaches her children '(1801),' A Letter to a friend about your stay at station '(1799),' swan song '(1826).

In 1792 the Legislative Assembly of the French Republic Pestalozzi was given the title 'citizen of the French Republic'.

Pestalozzi believed that education should be prirodosoobraznym. This development is carried out by successive exercises first in the family, then the school system and to a certain sequence.

. He developed a method for teaching children the original account, the measurement and speech, has greatly expanded the content of primary education to include basic information of the geometry, geography, drawing, singing, gymnastics
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Pestalozzi advocated the establishment of such schools, which '... satisfy the needs of the masses, would have gladly taken them and would be largely the creation of their own hands'.