The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-13

ters, to spell aud read, your scholars
have not only accomplished all TINS
with success as yet unknown, Dut |
the best of them have already dis
tinguished themselves by their good
writing, drawing and calculating. In
them all you have been aoie so 10
arouse and excite a liking for his
tory, natural history, mensuration, |
geography, etc, that thus future
teachers must find their task a far
easier one il they only know how to
make good use of the preparatory
stage the children have gone through
with you"
In recognition of his success he was
promoted. But he was working alone.
He longed for a helper, that he
might realize his ideas to greater
extent than he was able to while re-
living wholly on his own work. That
helper soon appeared in the person or
Herman Krusi, and the two, with the
help of other assistants whom they
were able to get, established the
famous Bergdorf Institute. An ac-
count which Krusi gives of himself
will cast much light upon the charac-
Ter of the schools which PestaloZZi had
set himself to reform. i quote Com
payre: "He was eighteen, and Till
then his only employment had been
that of a peddler for his father. one
day as he was going about his business,
with a heavy load of merchandise on
his shoulders, he meets on the road
revenue officer of the State and they
enter into conversation. do you
know said the officer, that the
teacher of Gals is about to leave his
school? Would you not like to sue
coed him?' 1T is not a question OF
what / would like. A scboolmaster
should have knowledge, in which L
am absolutely lacking what
schoolrnaster can and should know
with US you can easily learn at your
age Krusi reflected, went to work
and copied more than hundred times
a specimen of writing, and he declares
that this was his only preparation.
He registered for examination. The
day for the trial arrived. "There
were but two competitors of u.s." he
saws. 1.-THE principal test consisted
in writing the Lords Prayer, and to
this / gave my closest attention. L
had observed that in German use was
made of capital letters; but l. dId not
know the rule for their use and took
them for ornaments. So i distributed
mine in a symmetrical manner, so
that some were found even in the
middle of words. In fact, neither OF
us knew anything. When the exam
ination had been estimated L was
summoned, and Captain Schoepfer
informed me that the examiners had
found us both deficient; that my COM
petitor read the better, but that L ex-
celIed him in writing; that, besides,
nv apartment, being larger than that
of the other candidate, was better
fitted for holding q school, and finally,
that / was elected to the vacant
place. 1t was seven years later that
Krusi went to Burgdorf to assist
Pestalozzi in the task of reforming
the schools of Europe.
While we are on the subject of edu-
cational qualifications, what OF
Pestalozzi himself? L am indebted
to Quick for this surprising state
ment: "He had everything against
him: thick, indistinct speech, bad
writing, ignorance of drawing, scorn
of grammatical learning. He had
studied various ,ches OF natural
history, out Wi .t any particular
attention either - classification or
terminoIogy. He was conversant
with the ordinary operations in arith-
metic. but he would have had diff
cuitv in getting through n really long
sum in division; and he probably had
never tried to work out problem in
geometry. For years this dreamer
had read no books" PestaloZzi him.
self says that for thirty years he never
read a book and that he could not
longer read them, that he could not
write properly nor read nor reckon
At this period he was sent by the
directors to Paris as a counsellor to
advise with the First Consul Bona
parte on the matter of the form oil
government suited to Switzerland
An attempt to interest Napoleon In
his educational ideas was unsuccess'
full. On his return one OF MS assist
ants asked him, 'Did you see Bona,
narte?u "No," was the reply, 81 die
not see Bonaparte and BOnaparte did
not see me.n This would seem to In
dictate that his judgment of himself
was good.
The Kaleidoscope changes of the
revolutionary period threw him liter
allv out of doors, with his institute
at the end of one year. But mouse
was offered him at Muenchen Buchsee
and thither he went with his ASSIST
ants. and the institute was re-eStao
lished. But, owing to his &" unrlvalet
incapacity to govern" as he himself
tells us, he was induced to give up the
management TO one Fellenberg. This
however, did not prove satisfactor.
arrangement, and PestaloZZl wen
away and established himself at fver
dun, where his assistants soon Joine'
him, aud the institute became per
manently established. Here he Ia
bored for twenty years. Hitler ficcke'
teachers and pupils from all owe
Europe, and even from America
Such men as Karl Ritter, Karl VOL
Raumer, Herbart and Froeoel-al
Young men at the time went I
Yverdun for inspiration and instruc
ton, and the institute became one c
the objects of interest to attract tour
lists to- Switzerland. But, at length
his "unrlvaIed iucapacity to govern
brought the institute to its ruin, an
in 1925 il was closed.
Bitterly disappointed aud dishear
ened. PestaIozzi, now 20 years old, re
turned to Neubof to- die. he passe
away in 1927. Nineteen years late
the centennial OF his birth, the canto
his or