PESTALOZZI, JOHANN HEINRICH. Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt, ein Versuch den Müttern Anleitung zu geben, ihre Kinder selbst zu unterrichten. Bern and Zurich: Heinrich Gessner, 1801. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by H. Lips after M. Diogg. 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine label; lacks front and rear free endpapers, small owner's stamp on title verso; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy with the rare frontispiece portrait.

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PESTALOZZI, JOHANN HEINRICH. Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt, ein Versuch den Müttern Anleitung zu geben, ihre Kinder selbst zu unterrichten. Bern and Zurich: Heinrich Gessner, 1801. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by H. Lips after M. Diogg. 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine label; lacks front and rear free endpapers, small owner's stamp on title verso; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy with the rare frontispiece portrait.

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"...an exhaustive exposition of Pestalozzi's principles with especial emphasis on the three R's. The most important and forward-looking of his ideas, which he stressed continually in practice as well as precept, was that the true method of education is to develop the child, not to train him as one trains a dog. The pupil must be regarded as more important than the subject and the 'whole man' must be developed."--Printing and the Mind of Man 258.

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