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A book was suggested to Pestalozzi by a friend, Vouz voulez mecaniser l ’ education ( translated edition: The Application of Psychology to the Science of Education by Johann Friedrich Herbart ).

Although Pestalozzi said he did not know much French, what he was able to understand " threw a flood of light upon my whole endeavor ".

It confirmed his ideas of education that he had developed at Neuhof, Stans, and now Burgdorf in which all understanding can be achieved through a psychologically ordered sequence.