[Footnote 37]: Held all over Protestant Germany in 1817.
[Footnote 38]: Our children still in like manner "say their catechism" at afternoon church in old-fashioned country places.
[Footnote 39]: This school, still in existence up to 1865 and later, but now no longer in being, had been founded under Gruner, a pupil of Pestalozzi, to embody and carry out the educational principles of the latter.
[Footnote 40]: There is a smaller town called Frankfurt, on the Oder. "Am Main," or "An der Oder," is, therefore, added to the greater or the smaller Frankfurt respectively, for distinction's sake.
[Footnote 41]: He never does, for this interesting record remains a fragment.
[Footnote 42]: Situate at the head of the lake of Neuchatel, but in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.
[Footnote 43]: Austria was not the only country alive to the importance of this new teaching. Prussia and Holland also sent commissioners to study Pestalozzi's system, and so did many other smaller states. The Czar (Alexander I.) sent for Pestalozzi to a personal interview at Basel.
[Footnote 44]: Wandernde Classen. Some of our later English schools have adopted a similar plan.
[Footnote 45]: One of Pestalozzi's teachers, to whom especially was confided the arrangement of the arithmetical studies.
[Footnote 46]: By positive instruction Froebel means learning by heart, or by being told results; as distinguished from actual education or development of the faculties, and the working out of results by pupils for themselves.