Show for future reading The letters were learned and later on the blocks were arranged in words Pestalozzi also relied to a great exa basis tent on graphic exercises which consisted of the elementary drawing of lines angles and forms As the children talked their way through an object lesson they kept their slates on their knees and drew con- stantly Pestalozzi with his insistence that schools be based upon the nature and spontaneous activity of children was truly the forerunner of modern education Pestalozzi In speaking of the general influence of on education Mac Vannel has said: i nIn his deeply religious nature Pestalozzi reminds us of I i i I ! in the intensity of feeling and of his demand for freedom he resembles Rousseau while in his lofty integrity his firm adher- His life ence to right and duty he resembles the philosopher Kant Comenius is ! I one long record of sincere consecration to the cuase of education as the only certain method of material elevation and of moral and intellectual regenerat ion— a a more industrious more To him more living to method by which a people can be helped satisfying purer than any other and more man is due spiritual the mode of movement T toward popular education nJx i i i Educational Theories of Herbert and York: Teachers College Columbia University Press John j Froebal 1906) (New p 58 A Mac Vannel The |