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HENRY PESTA LOZZI,

AND

HIS PLAN OF EDUCATION;

BEING AN ACCOUNT

OF

HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS;

WITH COPIOUS EXTRACTS FROM HIS WORKS,

AND

EXTENSIVE DETAILS ILLUSTRATIVE OF

THE PRACTICAL PARTS OF HIS METHOD.

BY E. BIBER, PH. DR.

Sine irâ et studio, quorum caussas procul habeo.

TACITUS.

LONDON:

JOHN SOUTER, SCHOOL LIBRARY,

73, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

J. AND C. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.

MUSEU

PREFACE.

It is now about twenty years since PESTALOZZI's name first reached this country; but the interest which it has excited, is to be attributed to the general feeling of the necessity of improving the state of education here, rather than to any clear knowledge on the part of the public, as to the nature of Pestalozzi's principles and of his method. It would be an endless task to recount, and an hopeless one to refute, all the erroneous and absurd notions which are afloat on this subject; nor can the public be held responsible for the mistakes and prejudices into which they have fallen, since the only sources of information accessible to them, were a few meager accounts, most of them drawn up by persons but superficially acquainted with Pestalozzi's views. To this must be added, that having for their object to gain the atten