[39] This school, still in existence up to 1865 and later, but now no
longer in being, had been founded under Gruner, a pupil of Pestalozzi,
to embody and carry out the educational principles of the latter.
[40] There is a smaller town called Frankfurt, on the Oder. "Am Main,"
or "An der Oder," is, therefore, added to the greater or the smaller
Frankfurt respectively, for distinction's sake.
[41] He never does, for this interesting record remains a fragment.
[42] Situate at the head of the lake of Neuchatel, but in the canton of
Vaud, in Switzerland.
[43] Austria was not the only country alive to the importance of this
new teaching. Prussia and Holland also sent commissioners to study
Pestalozzi's system, and so did many other smaller states. The Czar
(Alexander I.) sent for Pestalozzi to a personal interview at Basel.
[44] _Wandernde Classen._ Some of our later English schools have adopted
a similar plan.
[45] One of Pestalozzi's teachers, to whom especially was confided the
arrangement of the arithmetical studies.
[46] By positive instruction Froebel means learning by heart, or by
being told results; as distinguished from actual education or
development of the faculties, and the working out of results by pupils
for themselves.
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