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Yverdon

Switzerland
Also known as: Eburodunum, Iferten

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Pestalozzi’s school

  • Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
    In Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

    …1825 a boarding school at Yverdon, near Neuchâtel. Both schools relied for funds on fee-paying pupils, though some poor children were taken in, and these institutes served as experimental bases for proving his method in its three branches—intellectual, moral, and physical, the latter including vocational and civic training. They also…

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  • a classroom in Brazil
    In education: Pestalozzi

    …in 1805 he founded at Yverdon his famous boarding school, which flourished for 20 years, was attended by students from every country in Europe, and was visited by many important figures of the time, including the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the educators Froebel and Herbart, and the geographer Carl Ritter.

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