Pestalozzi Monument
Place Pestalozzi, Yverdon-les-Bains 1400 - Switzerland
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The Pestalozzi Monument was erected to honour Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Born in Zürich in 1746, he was an educationalist who devoted his life to giving underprivileged children the chance to have an education. In 1804 Pestalozzi was invited by the Yverdon municipality to establish an educational institute. Up to 150 boys aged 7 to 15 were taken from the streets, fed, clothed, and educated in mathematics, languages, music, gymnastics and biology. Two years later, he set up a similar school for girls, followed in 1813 by Switzerland’s first schools for children with hearing and/or speech disabilities. Pestalozzi died in Birr in 1827.
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