Excerpt from The Studies and Methods of Teaching in Prussian Schools As this system of education was only adapted to the instruction of the lower classes, it probably in a short time would have been forgotten, if it had not been taken up by the government of some coun tries. The lower classes are nowhere capable of paying for their Children such a sum as will main tain private schools in which teachers are employed who have attained the degree of knowledge required for instructing them with effect according to the system of Pestalozzi. With the death of the founder, and that of a few of his disciples, whom he had suc ceeded in inspiring with a part of his own zeal and enthusiasm, his great invention would have been forgotten, if some of the republics of Switzerland, a few princes Of Germany, and the Prussian govern ment, had not thought it a matter of great import ance to transplant it into their elementary schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.