The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-03-16

by progressive knowledge of the resli
ties of life either before or after fling
ing il into the labyrinth Of woris anC
making them the basis of develop
ment? Does the artificial march o.
the ordinary Hawaiian school, anti
cipating the order OF nature, which
proceeds without anxiety and without
haste, inveIt this order by placing
words first, and thus secure deceit
full appearance of success at the eX-
pense of natural and safe develop
ment?
| To summarize Pestalozzisnism in 8
sentence, the motive of education is
philanthrophy; its purpose is 10 en-
able the man whom in Gods wide
world nobody helps ana nobody can
| help, To help himself; its means is
| the drawing out of the moral, intel
lectual, and physical power which
| God has put into our nature: its
method Is self-activity; the first prin-
ciples of human nature are the moral
principles of love and faith; and the
I first materials of education are the
realities of life.
HIS INFLUENCE.
1t remains but TO speak briefly of
PestalozZi's influence upon the educa-
tional progress of the world, begin
ming with that country which pro-
fitted earliest and most by his life
and thought. After the disastrous
battle of Jena, in 1906, Frederick Viii
liam III. OF Prussia, in an address to
his people said: 1--WE have indeed
lost in territory, and fallen in exter-
nal power and splendor, but We must
see 10 it that We gain in internal
power and splendor; and hence it is
my earnest desire that the greatest
attention be given to the instruction
of the people" Stein, and after him
Hardenburg, nobody did the lolitIcal
work OF organizing the proposed edu-
catiOnal movement. Fichte, in q
series of addresses 10 the German
people, showed that the education
proposed by Pestalozzi, and 40 other,
could accomplish the desired end.
Zeller, Que of PestoloZZi's pupils and
assistants was called u Prussia to
train teachers. In 1915, the centennial
OF Pe>talozzi'S birth, there were In
Prussia alone fifty normal schools for
the training OF teachers according TO
his methods. And it is 10 this move
ment that Prussia owes her proud pos
ition in the educational world today
Another ~ PestaloZZi'S pupils, DR..
Mayo, ia cooperation with Others
established in London the HON. aud
Colonial TTaiidug Institution, an in
StItutiOu which seems TO have enjoyed
less success than il deserved, aud that
oh .r IL.
school that Miss Margaret Z. Vi.
Jones anu Professor Herman krusi, at
the request of DR.. Sheldon, were called
to assist in the work of introducing
the PestalozZian education at Oswego.
TIE history of the normal schools
generally seems ineXtricably conuec-
ted with the history of PestaloZZianism
at least 80 far as America is con
cerned. But the Oswego normal
school has been above all Others the
representative and exponent of the
Pestalozziau ideas in America. And
without robbiug Mann, or Barnard.
or Page, or Dickinson of the honors
justly due them, it may be said that
DR.. f. \. Sheldon, OF OswegO, has
done more than any other one mau 10
introduce PestaloZZi's ideas and spirit
into American schools He has taken
the part in the movement in America
which Zeller took in the Prussian
in the early part of the I
present century. Professor Gordy, in
his Rise and Growth of the Normal !
School Idea in the United States, en-
more thai. forty normal and |
training schools winch are now doing |
PestaloZZian work owing to the direct |
Influence OF OSweEO, and ID my own /
knowledge he has not exhausted the /
list. What the indirect influence of |
such an institution Is, no man can esti- |
mate.
These are the countries outside OF /
Switzerland in which Pestalozzi's ill., 4
duence has been most direct and most /
powerful. But one cannot observe the 4
;hauges which are taking place in the
schools all over Christendom without
that the little PestaIozzian
eaven is slowly leaeaning the whole
Jump.
This lecture has been made his.Or-
cal rather than critical, in the hope
hat thus We might be enabled 1
ellings Of Karl Ritter when
lie said: az have seen more
han the Paradise Of Switzerland, for
lave seen PestalOzZi, and recognized
low great his heart Is, and how great
lis genius; never have l been 50 filled
with q sense Of the sacredness of my
location and the dignity of human
Lature as in the days spent with this
.oble man"