Note 5. To the Subsection “Pestalozzi’s View of Education”
On intellectual education (mental education) and moral-religious education (heart education), Pestalozzi wrote the following:
“Originally, intellectual education is not at all suitable for producing innocence and child-like feelings within ourselves, which produce all the methods that enhance ourselves to higher, divine feelings. As a thorn does not bear figs and a thistle does not bear grapes, so mere spiritual education, separate from heart education, does not bear the fruit of love. Since spiritual education is a victim of the selfishness and weakness that arise as a result of this separation, it has the cause of degradation in itself, and exhausts itself by its own power, just as a flame burns out as soon as it is taken out of the fuel container.”
Spirit and Heart in the Method (Japanese version) (Meiji-Tosho: Tokyo, 1980), 122.
In Swans’ Song (1826), which he wrote just before his death, he explained spiritual power, heart power, and technical power, and clarified that love is the force that unites them.