Las escuelas normales que se organizaron en Colombia en la decada de los anos setenta del Siglo XIX, implementaron la pedagogia del maestro suizo Johann Heinrich Pestalozz. Esta orientacion educativa se considero que era la apropiada para la formacion de ios maestros que se debian encargar de /a educacion de/ nuevo ciudadano y que transformaria a/ pais con perspectivas de progreso modernizados PESTALOTIAN PEDAGOGYIN THE COLOMBIAN NORMAL SCHOOLS The normal schools that where organized in Colombia during the decade of the 60 s of the XIX century, they introduced the pedagogy of the swiss teacher Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi because it was considered the appropriated for the formation of teachers who sing to take the responsability of the education of new citizen who would transform the country with progessive perspectives within a modernizating environment.