“Elogio dell’incompiutezza”: riflessioni sulla dialettica del mestiere di educatore fra ideali e realtà ne Il Canto del cigno (1826) di J.H. Pestalozzi

[Autom. eng. transl.] Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi is considered among the great inspirers of European pedagogy between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and master of popular education. His many pages, written with obsessive commitment, also give us back the pain that the Zurich educator felt in the face of the succession of his failures on a practical level. The article, through some solicitations taken from the works of Pestalozzi (in particular Il canto del cigno, considered his spiritual testament) proposes a reading starting from this "contradiction", with the conviction that in it there is an important provocation for all the educators of today.