TISTE (known as "Le Pere Girard" or "Le Pere Gregoire") (1765-1850), French-Swiss edu cationalist was born at Fribourg and educated for the priesthood at Lucerne. In 1804 he began his career as a public teacher, first in the elementary school at Fribourg (1805-23), then (being driven away by Jesuit hostility) in the gymnasium at Lucerne till when he retired to Fribourg and devoted himself with the produc tion of his books on education, De l'enseignement regulier de la langue maternelle (1834, 9th ed. 1894, Eng. trans. by Lord Eb rington, The Mother Tongue, 1847) ; and Cours educatif 46). Father Girard was hailed, in Switzerland, as a second Pes talozzi, and his books influenced educational methods elsewhere. He abandoned the system of cramming children's minds with rules and facts, seeking instead to stimulate their intelligence.