Pestalozzi: The Man and His Work.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960. Item #924
8vo. 215 x 135 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [xiv] 335 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 plates. Original red cloth, dust jacket.
Well researched biography of Johann Heinrich Petalozzi, the Swiss born Italian immigrant whose ideas about education reflected the transitions in society where industrialization and urbanization were creating changes to traditional customs and mores. " "Pestalozzi recognized the danges inherent in the industiral age; progressive mechanization, growing mass development, increasing state control, and diminishing individual responsibility" were threatening the well-being of families in 19th centiry Europe. Silber's goal in writing this book in English was to bring the progressive ideas of Pestalozzi to an audience not well aquainted with his enlighten thought.
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