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description: "He turned Swiss education inside out with a simple conviction: children learn through doing, not just listening. His schools and writings made \"Learning by head, hand and heart\" the template for modern pedagogy, and by 1830 Switzerland had nearly erased illiteracy."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Zurich on 12 January 1746, Pestalozzi came of age as Romanticism questioned old certainties about how minds develop. He founded schools across German- and French-speaking Switzerland, each a laboratory for his belief that education should engage the whole child — intellect, skill, emotion. His writings spread the method beyond his classrooms, and the results were measurable: 18th-century Switzerland's crushing illiteracy was almost entirely gone by 1830. He died on 17 February 1827, having rewritten the grammar of teaching itself.