The cultural part of the Annual Report is dedicated to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a famous Swiss educator and pedagogue.
Born in Zurich to Johann Baptist Pestalozzi - surgeon - and Susanna Hotz. The Italian surname was inherited from an ancestor of his father, who in the sixteenth century had left the current province of Sondrio, then under the rule of the Three Leagues, to move to Zurich. He trained in the city on the Limmat and studied higher education - first in theology and then in law - at the Carolinum Institute, the predecessor of the University of Zurich.
Pestalozzi is known as an educator and reformer of the school system, but he was also a philosopher. During his various experiences as an educator, he wrote numerous works, each drawn from his direct experience of the different educational methods he had undertaken.
He introduced the concept of heart education, known through his famous triad "Head, Heart and Hand".
He is still today an important source of inspiration for scholars and educators who, since the past, continue to draw on his concepts and examples from his experience. Pestalozzi's numerous writings are considered not only of high value in the field of education but above all substantial elements applicable in this complex science - pedagogy - always in progress.
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