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- adjective Relating to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Swiss teacher, or especially his system of
elementary education incorporatingmanual training . - noun An advocate or follower of Pestalozzi's system.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This argument was consistent with his attitudes toward education, which favored a Pestalozzian model that tried to manage one's inherent animal instincts.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
Representative Men 2006
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Worman's Language Series is based on the "Natural or Pestalozzian Method" of language instruction, better known to generations of language students as the Hammer-It-Into-Their-Thick-Skulls-Method.
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Before we leave the Pestalozzian Method to gather historical dust, I want to share a stimulating illustration from First Spanish Book: "Un libro bajo una mesa".
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Before we leave the Pestalozzian Method to gather historical dust, I want to share a stimulating illustration from First Spanish Book: "Un libro bajo una mesa".
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Worman's Language Series is based on the "Natural or Pestalozzian Method" of language instruction, better known to generations of language students as the Hammer-It-Into-Their-Thick-Skulls-Method.
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Before we leave the Pestalozzian Method to gather historical dust, I want to share a stimulating illustration from First Spanish Book: "Un libro bajo una mesa".
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Worman's Language Series is based on the "Natural or Pestalozzian Method" of language instruction, better known to generations of language students as the Hammer-It-Into-Their-Thick-Skulls-Method.
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A similarly monistic materialism informed the re - markable if crude book of a Kentucky physician, inventor, champion of Pestalozzian education, and empirical investigator of vision — Joseph Buchanan.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968
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My plan, indeed, would be a further development of the Kindergarten scheme, and the Pestalozzian system, generally.
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