Johann H .Pestalozzi was recognized as one of the most influential educators in modern Switzerland and Europe . He was not a philosopher ,but he had a unique educational philosophy . During the process of the modernization of Western education ,he highlighted human nature and relevant educational problems and launched an in-depth educational philosophy thinking and exploration . Pestalozzi proposed a macroscopicanalytic framework starting from the point of view of philosophy of education ,which divided mankind into three basic types :″p rimitive person″ (″natural person″) ,″social person″a nd″m oral person .″Pestalozzi tried to put the individual into specific social environment and aimed at building up the people who could adopt and constantly innovate modern social life ,hence he made outstanding contributions to laying the main theme of modern education .Like Jean-Jacques Rousseau ,Pestalozzi emphasized on perceptual and emotional factors and treated them as the starting points and basis of education ,but he disagreed with Rousseau in that the″natural person″was most kind-hearted ,and he stood in the point of view that the″natural person″s hould be educated to the″m oral person″with autonomy and advocated self-consciousness . On the basic view of human nature ,Pestalozzi and Immanuel Kant share the same view .They ,to some extent ,both have Rousseau as their own starting point ,and they both regard the question″w hat is human being″as the ultimate issue in the theory ,so the human nature issue is the question that Kant and Pestalozzi had repeatedly asked ,it is the question they spent their live thinking and trying to answer .They mainly focused on the individual ,but in combination with the vision of the society . Thus ,to speed up the natural″disenchantment″ process and ,therefore ,in the Kantian philosophy and the philosophy of education in Pestalozzi ,″human nature″i s the overall logical clue . Through the analysis in Natural Process of Human Development ,Pestalozzi had recognized the interaction of people and the environment ,and also grasped the dialectical relationship between″p rimitive person ,″″s ocial person″and″m oral person ,″a nd thus had gone beyond the thought of Rousseau .However ,in moral education ,Kant focused on the decisive significance to emphasize the development of″good will ,″w hile Pestalozzi tended to use the emotional power of″love″to influence children and all people . Emotional education occupies an important position in the thoughts of Pestalozzi . It is seen as the starting point and the main way of moral education prior to intellectual and labor education;in this respect ,Pestalozzi may be more influenced by Rousseau . In-depth analysis on the educational philosophy of Pestalozzi will help the academic circles to grasp the spiritual nature of this ''educatorof mankind  ''.