Lectures on the Science and Art of Education, with Other Lectures |
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abstrac acquisition action already Art of Education art of teaching ascer called cation child ciples College of Preceptors Comenius conception consciousness consists cramming cultivate definite direct Edderton educa educator's elemen employed endeavored exer exercise explanations facts faculties force founded Froebel furnished gained give grammar habits heart ideas influence instruction intellectual interest invention investigation involved Jacotot ject knowl knowledge language laws learner lecture lesson machine Martha's Vineyard matter means memory ment mental merely method of teaching mind moral natural educator Nature's never notions object observation opposite proceeding Pestalozzi physical powers practice principles proposition pupil quackery quire relation repeat rules says Science and Art Science of Education scientific scientific method self-teaching sense Sir Bartle Frere taught teacher tells theory things thoritative tical tion true uncon whole words
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Page 114 - Here ye do well." For I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. But if the...
Page 199 - ... in teaching him botany, he must handle the plants and dissect the flowers for himself; in teaching him physics and chemistry, you must not be solicitous to fill him with information, but you must be careful that what he learns he knows of his own knowledge.
Page 31 - It shall suffice to my present purpose to consider the discerning faculties of a man as they are employed about the objects which they have to do with...
Page 200 - The great peculiarity of scientific training, that in virtue of which it cannot be replaced by any other discipline whatsoever, is this bringing of the mind directly into contact with fact, and practising the intellect in the completest form of induction; that is to say, in drawing conclusions from particular facts made known by immediate observation of nature.
Page 30 - The great thing with knowledge and the young is to secure that it shall be their own — that it be not merely external to their inner and real self, but shall go in succum...
Page 64 - O'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 102 - is obtained by the child's own exertions, and the master's success may be measured by the degree in which he can bring his scholars to make such exertions absolutely without aid.
Page 124 - The best thing's we had with him were the exercises in language, at least those which he gave us on the paper-hangings of the school-room, and which were real exercises in observation. These hangings were very old and a good deal torn, and before these we had frequently to stand for two or three hours together, and say what we observed in respect to the form, number, position and color of...
Page 200 - If the great benefits of scientific training are sought, it is essential that such training should be real : that is to say, that the mind of the scholar should be brought into direct relation with fact, that he should not merely be told a thing, but made to see by the use of his own intellect and ability that the thing is so and no otherwise.
Page 77 - On the other hand, the experience of mankind shows that the pupil, however capable, would not generally undertake his part spontaneously, nor, if he did, carry it to a successful issue. The indispensable part of the process cannot, it is true, be done without the mental exertion of the pupil, but it is equally true that it will not be done without the action and influence of the teacher. The teacher's part then in the process of instruction is that of a guide, director, or superintendent of the operations...