On their way through Switzerland in the early 1800s, many a notable—among them Talleyrand and Madame de Stael—made a point of stopping at Yverdon. There, in an old castle, lived scores of waifs and ...

JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI died at Brugg, Switzerland, on Feb. 17, 1827; and in the hundred years which have passed since then, a great change has taken place in educational thought and practice.

Teaching had hardly changed since Ptolemy’s day. Education was by rote and rod. A young, ugly, runty, sad-eyed Swiss scholar wanted to do something about it. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had already ...

Pestalozzi is one of the leading and most respected law firms in Switzerland. It has offices in Zurich and Geneva and specialists with expertise in all areas of business law, enabling it to form ...