Jean-Baptiste Girard (pedagogue)

Jean-Baptiste Girard (pedagogue)

Jean-Baptiste Girard (b. at Fribourg, 17 December1765; d. there, 6 March1850) was a Swiss Franciscan educator.

Life

At sixteen he entered the novitiate of the Franciscans at Lucerne; after spending some time teaching in the colleges of the order, he went to Würzburg for his philosophical and theological studies, and was there ordained to the priesthood.

Returning to Fribourg in 1789, he spent ten years in missionary work and in teaching philosophy to the young men of his order. His orthodoxy came under some suspicion, caused by his admiration for Kantian ideas.

Upon the invitation of Stapfer, minister of arts and sciences, Girard wrote a plan for education in Switzerland and was called to Verne where he remained four years. In 1804 he was recalled to Fribourg, and took up work in the primary schools.

As director of the schools in Fribourg (1807-1823), Girard made education compulsory, organized the school administration, insisted on the adoption of good textbooks and methods, and introduced the monitorial system, avoiding the abuse of mere memory exercise and making every study converge to the child's complete education. These successful reforms were the occasion for bitter opposition.

In 1809 Girard was sent to Yverdun to make a report to the Government on Pestalozzi's institutlon. He had met the latter in Berne and professed admiration for his ability as an educator, while differing from him on several important points, especially on the value of the monitorial system. This method, in fact, which Girard applied, was opposed by the bishop and the civil authorities of Fribourg, in 1823.

Girard abandoned his school and went to Lucerne as professor of philosophy in the gymnasium. In 1834 he returned to Fribourg, where he remained till his death, engaged in educational pursuits and in the publication of some of his works. He had a great reputation in France, being a Knight of the Legion of Honour, and a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques.

Works

Besides many reports and memoirs, his principal writings are:

*"Cours de philosophie fait au Lycée de Lucerne" (1829- 31);
*"Des moyens de stimuler l'activité dons les écoles" (1835);
*"Parallèle entre la philosophie et la physique" (1840); and
*"Cours éducatif de langue maternelle" (Paris, 1840-48).

These works banish abstractions that are above the child's understanding, principles and rules being taught chiefly by means of concrete examples, and difficulties being introduced gradually.


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