Jean Henri Pestalozzi, a.k.a. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (Swiss, 1746-1827): Learn all about this famous Swiss educational reformer who replaced the rote Lancasterian system by introducing the notion of questioning children.
Click here to print. This workbook is 16 pages in length. The answer key is below.
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Answer Key:
- C - questioning
- Crying, glib lying, ruined tempers, and minds made desultory, shallow, and conceited
- William Wordsworth's "Anecdote for Fathers, Showing how the Practice of Lying May be Taught"
- Lancasterian system
- B - Milan
- C - physician
- Zurich
- languages
- C - 22
- He had no skill or prudence in its management
- Leonard and Gertrude
- 1798
- A - conversing
- Answers will vary
- imperial patronage
- Yverdun
- B - oral
- E - degradation
- C - blundered
- R - trice
- S - uncouth
- D - conception
- F - disposition
- B - benevolent
- J - insular
- G - disrepute
- A - benefactor
- Q - theorist
- M - mischief
- O - prudence
- I - glib
- N - philological
- P - reaction
- T - vogue
- H - frittered
- L - jargon
- K - interrogate
- Answers will vary
- Answers will vary
- S - reformer
- B - aptitude
- R - recourse
- A - advancement
- T - summoned
- E - dreary
- J - impudent
- L - intercourse
- D - consultation
- P - precedent
- K - incompatible
- C - companionship
- O - patronage
- I - fretful
- F - enthusiasm
- N - malicious
- Q - qualifications
- M - interrogation
- H - foibles
- G - ferocious
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