The Practice of Instruction: A Manual of Method General and SpecialJohn William Adamson National Society's Depository, 1907 - 512 páginas |
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Página 107 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind as considered historically; or in other words, the genesis of knowledge in the individual must follow the same course as the genesis of knowledge in the race.
Página 33 - The great skill of a teacher is to get and keep the attention of his scholar; whilst he has that, he is sure to advance as fast as the learner's abilities will carry him; and without that, all his bustle and pother will be to little or no purpose. To attain this, he should make the child comprehend (as much as may be...
Página 81 - ... the study of nature. The circle of knowledge comprehends both, and we should all have some notion, at any rate, of the whole circle of knowledge. The rejection of the humanities by the realists, the rejection of the study of nature by the humanists, are alike ignorant.
Página 66 - When it has been clearly seen what ought to be our definition, it must be pretty well known what truth we have to state. The definition, as well as the discovery, supposes a decided step in our knowledge to have been made. The writers on Logic, in the middle ages, made Definition the last stage in the progress of knowledge ; and in this arrangement at least, the history of science, and the philosophy derived from the history, confirm their speculative views.
Página 16 - Consciousness is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks. The phenomena of selective attention and of deliberative will are of course patent examples of this choosing activity. But few of us are aware how incessantly it is at work in operations not ordinarily called by these names. Accentuation and Emphasis are present in every perception we have.
Página 244 - ... philosophy of history;" far from it. Nor do we mean that time should be consumed in discussing the meaning of facts when the facts themselves are not known. But history has to do with the becoming of past events, not simply with what was, but with what came to be, and in studying the simplest forms of historical narrative even the average pupil comes to see that one thing leads to another; he begins quite unconsciously to see that events do not simply succeed each other in time, but that one...
Página 327 - The square of the sum of two numbers is equal to the square of the first number plus twice the product of the first and second number plus the square of the second number.
Página 458 - ... the first period. (3) The teacher's next aim should be to impart a perfect command of the commonest phrases and idioms of the foreign language. To obtain this result he will use connected texts, dialogues, descriptions and narratives, all as easy, natural, and interesting as possible. (4) Grammar will at first be taught inductively by grouping together and drawing general conclusions from such facts as are observed in reading. A more systematic study is to be kept for a later stage. (5) The teacher...
Página 108 - the selection of the kind, variety, and due proportion of subjects answering most definitely to the dominant needs and powers of...
Página 107 - Every human being who is attentive to his own development may thus recognize and study in himself the history of the development of the race to the point it may have reached, or to any fixed point.