Monday, April 3, 2023

Absolute Self-Abnegation

Oscar Browning, A Short History of Education, edt. W. H. Payne, 1897, p. 55:

Pestalozzi [Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi], on the other hand, was completely and entirely devoted to education. His greatest merit is that he set an example of absolute self-abnegation; that he lived with his pupils, played, starved, and suffered with them; and clung to their minds and hearts with an affectionate sympathy which revealed to him every minute difference of character and disposition.

 

Pestalozzi with the Orphans in Stans, 1879, done by Konrad Grob, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung.

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