. The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . an interesting story about a poor peasant family thatlived in the village of Bonal. Gertrude is the thrift and the careful instruction of her childrenshe is able to reform her drinking husband, rear herchildren respectably, and lift her family out of povertyinto relative prosperity. Seeing which, the neighborssecure Gertrudes like services for their own children;as a result, the whole village is reformed. The lessonwhich Pestalozzi meant to teach with this story wasthat education is the me
. The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . an interesting story about a poor peasant family thatlived in the village of Bonal. Gertrude is the thrift and the careful instruction of her childrenshe is able to reform her drinking husband, rear herchildren respectably, and lift her family out of povertyinto relative prosperity. Seeing which, the neighborssecure Gertrudes like services for their own children;as a result, the whole village is reformed. The lessonwhich Pestalozzi meant to teach with this story wasthat education is the means by which the commonpeople can be lifted ou*t of their vice and misery. Butthe message was too advanced for that age; menlooked to political revolution for their social salvation. 68 THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL Hence the book, though it was very popular as a merestory, missed its mark; Pestalozzis own generationdid not see the point. Nevertheless it was a great message, and especiallyremarkable coming as it did at that stage of the worldshistory. It was practically a new idea. Universal. Pestalozzi at Stanz education had hardly been dreamed of. Time, how-ever, was to increase its recognition. In 1798, when Pestalozzi was fifty-two years of age,he received an appointment from the government toopen a school for war orphans, in an unfinished con-vent at Stanz. Again he combined industrial trainingwith ordinary teaching. Here he first made use of^ object-teaching in arithmetic, language, geography, PESTALOZZI 69 and natural history. But in less than a year thebuilding was taken over by the French army to be usedas a hospital. Later Life of Pestalozzi. — But now he began tosucceed. In 1800 he was able to open a private schoolin the old castle and castle gardens at Burgdorf. Thisschool prospered from the start. Pestalozzi gatheredabout him a staff of kindred minded teachers. ThePestalozzian methods became famous and men in-terested in education visited the school, — amongthem a
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