ABSTRACT
It was not without reason that in 1949 Henri Grandjean called Geneva the ‘city of education’. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Geneva had become an international centre of the ‘new education’, the same as in New York, London, and Brussels. 1 In October 1912, Edouard Claparède founded the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute in Geneva; in January 1922, Adolphe Ferrière started a major review of the new education, Pour l’ère nouvelle; 2 the International School of Geneva was founded in 1924; 3 in December 1925 Pierre Bovet was appointed the first director of the International Bureau of Education; and in 1921 Jean Piaget became junior associate professor of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute.
