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 | | This is clearly an adaptation of Plato's method of habituation to goodness, but there is a greater emphasis on the need to give love and kindness to children to make unceasing efforts to broaden their sympathies, and to develop their good judgement and tactfulness. |
 | | Pestalozzi emphasises that the three aspects of education need to go hand in hand for the harmonious development of the individual, but it is in his ideas on the training of the intellect that are most clearly defined his principles for improving the tendencies and powers of humanity according to the course of Nature. |
 | | His experiments in methods of self-government have been followed and developed, and now, after a phase of somewhat extreme freedom at some stages of education, general opinion tends to agree with him that firmness and consistency on the part of the teacher are desirable, although his first duty is still "to be interested and interesting". |
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