The evening of solo (1780) is a classic brief, the first who wrote Pestalozzi and entitled (but not its contents) is widely known in the professional environment of teaching. This is a typical production philosophy and culture of the Enlightenment, and thus shows the influence of typical and representative writers of the time. Here a Pestalozzi which has less than 34 years old and is full of enthusiasm for the ideas illustrated and deeply inspired by Rousseau expresses his philosophy and in some ways its education program. A few pages are worth a lot of times, and this work is reaffirmed: a declaration of principles that would later be portrayed by the author in exemplary institutions, and proposed as a means of regenerating the population as a country, but the all humanity. It is insisting on a new education model, which very well may be called "humanist", which combines the individual values of the people with the interests of society and the ideals of freedom with justice, all in one education system based on the psychology of the target and a 'natural' process of learning, remembering that the ultimate goal of education is that men should do to prevail in them the values of spirit and culture of selfishness and agresivididad purely animal level. Other selections in this book elaborated in more detail and from a greater experience of the author, the various aspects presented as a program in the evening. Through them, called the retention of the importance given to Pestalozzi stimulation of creative activities and physical education, and especially to the formation of the lower classes in order to have greater opportunities. Of particular interest is the role attributed to mothers as the first, main and often only educators. In many places one can detect a true cognitive theory focuses on children's cognitive development, which intuitively expected some ideas of Piaget. CONTENTS Introduction The evening of his time alone Pestalozzi intelligence and heart in the method of Pestalozzi notes on his method The essence of conformity to nature in education physical education Autobiographical Notes Self-portrait of Pestalozzi Pestalozzi Some thoughts culled His works of interest to educators and students of educational sciences, as well as students of the history of thought.