Heuristic method of teaching was developed by:

The heuristic method of teaching was developed by H.E. Armstrong, who had pupils discover knowledge like young researchers.

John Dewey championed learning by doing and the project method, not the heuristic method.

Friedrich Froebel founded the kindergarten and play-based early education.

Anne Sullivan was the teacher of Helen Keller, unrelated to devising this method.

In the heuristic method the learner investigates and finds facts personally rather than being told.

Its name comes from the Greek heurisko, meaning I find or discover.