During the "poverty-stricken Children's Home" in Xinzhuang, Pestalozzi began a preliminary attempt to combine education with productive labor. At that time, the combination was only the external combination of simple machinery, and there was no internal connection between teaching and labor. Pestalozzi continued the experiment of combining education with productive labor in Stanz Orphanage. The characteristics of this experiment are as follows: first, learning is clearly linked to manual labor, which means that Pestalozzi takes the combination of teaching and work as an important aspect of exploring new education more consciously. Secondly, Pestalozzi mainly arranged learning, supplemented by manual labor, but emphasized the connection and combination of the two. Third, attaching importance to learning basic cultural knowledge and mastering basic manual labor skills seems to try to find a "combination point" between learning and manual labor. Fourthly, Pestalozzi believes that the combination of education and productive labor is of great educational significance for cultivating people, and that it is also an educational approach based on educational psychology.
Pestalozzi saw the significance of the combination of education and productive labor to the harmonious development of human beings and social transformation to a certain extent, but due to the limitations of the times, he could not really find the internal relationship between education and productive labor, let alone make a comprehensive historical analysis of the relationship between education and productive labor, and did not understand that the real combination of education and productive labor could only be an ideal under the social conditions of Switzerland at that time. However, Pestalozzi put the idea of combining education with productive labor into practice for the first time and developed it in theory, which undoubtedly made an important contribution to the history of education development.