2. To connect all instruction with the study of language;
3. To furnish the mind for all its operations with fundamental data, mother ideas;
4. To simplify the mechanism of instruction and study;
5. To popularize science.
On several points, indeed, Pestalozzi calls in question the translation which Fischer has given of his thought; but, notwithstanding these reservations, powerless to find a more exact formula, he accepts as a finality this interpretation of his doctrine.
Later, another witness of the life of Pestalozzi, Morf, also condensed into a few maxims the pedagogy of the great teacher:—
1. Intuition is the basis of instruction;
2. Language ought to be associated with intuition;
3. The time to learn is not that of judging and of criticising;
4. In each branch, instruction ought to begin with the simplest elements, and to progress by degrees while following the development of the child, that is to say, through a series of steps psychologically connected;