See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• BAPTISTE

BAPTISTE [known as " Le Pere See also:

• JEAN BAPTISTE [known as " Le Pere Girard " or" Le Pere Gregoire "] GIRARD (1765-185o)
• GIRARD, PHILIPPE HENRI DE (1775-1845)
• GIRARD, STEPHEN (1750-1831)

Girard " or" Le Pere See also:

• GREGOIRE, HENRI (1750—1831)

Gregoire "] GIRARD (1765-185o)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French-Swiss educationalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• FRIBOURG [Ger. Freiburg]

Fribourg and educated for the priesthood at See also:

• LUCERNE
• LUCERNE (Ger. Luzern; Ital. Lucerne)
• LUCERNE, LAKE OF
• LUCERNE, PURPLE MEDICK

Lucerne . He was the fifth See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child in a See also:

• FAMILY

family of fourteen, and his See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift for teaching was See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early shown at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home in helping his See also:

• MOTHER

mother with the younger See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children; and after passing through his noviciate he spent some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time as an instructor in convents, notably at Wiirzburg (1785-1788) . Then for ten years he was busy with religious See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty . In 1798, full of Kantian ideas, he published an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay outlining a See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of See also:

• NATIONAL

national Swiss See also:

• EDUCATION

education; and in 1804 he began his career as a public teacher, first in the elementary school at Fribourg (1805-1823), then (being driven away by Jesuit hostility) in the gymnasium at Lucerne till 1834, when he retired to Fribourg and devoted himself with the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of his books on education, De l'enseignement regulier de la langue maternelle (1834, 9th ed . 1894; Eng. trans. by See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Ebrington, The Mother See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

Tongue, 1847), and Cours educatif (1844-1846) . See also:

• FATHER

Father See also:

• GIRARD, JEAN BAPTISTE [known as " Le Pere Girard " or" Le Pere Gregoire "] (1765-185o)
• GIRARD, PHILIPPE HENRI DE (1775-1845)
• GIRARD, STEPHEN (1750-1831)

Girard's reputation and See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence as an enthusiast in the cause of education became" potent not only in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, where he was hailed as a second See also:

• PESTALOZZI, JOHANN HEINRICH

Pestalozzi, but in other countries . He had a See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius for teaching, his method of stimulating the intelligence of the children at Fribourg and interesting them actively in learning, and not merely cramming them with rules and facts, being warmly praised by the Swiss educationalist See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois Naville (1784-1846) in his See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on public education (1832) . His undogmatic method and his Liberal See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity brought him into conflict with the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits, but his aim was, in all his teaching, to introduce the moral See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea into the minds of his pupils by familiarizing them with the right or wrong working of the facts he brought to their See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, and thus to elevate See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character all through the educational curriculum .