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An official state evaluation of the Pestalozzi method in Yverdon in 1810 judged that the method practiced at the institute was appropriate for a family-type educational institution but would not serve as a model for mass schooling in a modern state. This sobering report caused the tensions to escalate, and years of ups and downs were ahead of Pestalozzi. After Napoleon’s end and the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) Switzerland was in danger of being divided between France (in Restoration) and conservative Austria. This triggered Pestalozzi’s writing of his political testament. The devastating economic crises of 1816–1817 reminded him of his original vocation, education for the poor, which reinforced the problems in Yverdon.
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Tröhler, D. (2013). Public Critique, Restoration, Pestalozzi’s Lonesome End, and the Beginning of Modern Mass Education. In: Pestalozzi and the Educationalization of the World. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346858_10
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