01/04/2021
Did you know....?
Adolphe Ferrière was born in Geneva in 1879 and died in 1960. He was a Swiss pedagogue, he did his university studies in Geneva. After reading the chapter on the New Schools in the work of E. Demolis, and hence his initiation into the new pedagogy.
In addition, he affirms that the purpose of education is to help the child to develop its potential and that education must be in freedom and for freedom.
For this author, education was the art of promoting and initiating in the child the development of his intelligence and morality through the use of his interests.