The Method of the Recitation

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Macmillan, 1903 - 339 páginas

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Página 77 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near...
Página 221 - The subject-matter of Biological science is different from that of other sciences, but the methods of all are identical; and these methods are: 1. Observation of facts — including under this head that artificial observation which is called experiment. 2. That process of tying up similar facts into bundles, ticketed and ready for use, which is called Comparison and Classification — the results of the process, the ticketed bundles, being named General propositions. 3. Deduction, which takes us...
Página 216 - Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw their own inferences. They should be told as little as possible, and induced to discover as much as possible. Humanity has progressed solely by self-instruction; and that to achieve the best results, each mind must progress somewhat after the same fashion, is continually proved by the marked success of self-made men.
Página 268 - To meet the requirements of some courses of study, the section from the Third Book, treating of South America, is bound up with the Second Book, thus bringing North America and South America together in one volume. The following Supplementary Volumes have also been prepared, and...
Página 268 - PART (sth year) The Earth as a Whole . . . .40 cents THIRD PART (6th year) North America 75 cents FOURTH PART (7th year) Europe, South America, etc. . . .50 cents FIFTH PART (8th year) Asia and Africa, with Review of North America (with State Supplement) 50 cents Without Supplement 40 cents Home Geography, Greater New York Edition .... 50 cents net Teachers' Manual of Method in Geography.
Página 268 - Louisiana 30 cents Texas 35 cents When ordering, be careful to specify the Book or Part and the Series desired, and whether with or without the State Supplement.
Página 268 - Tarr and McMurry's Geographies A NEW SERIES OF GEOGRAPHIES IN TWO, THREE, OR FIVE VOLUMES By RALPH S. TARR, BS, FQSA CORNELL UNIVERSITY AND FRANK M. McMURRY, Ph.D. TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TWO BOOK SERIES Introductory Geography...
Página 268 - BOOK (7th year) Europe and Other Continents • • • 75 cents THE FIVE BOOK SERIES FIRST PART (4th year) Home Geography 40 cents SECOND PART (sth year) The Earth as a Whole .... 40 cents THIRD PART (6th year) North America 75 cents FOURTH PART (7th year) Europe, South America, Etc.
Página 213 - ... should know beforehand what is coming if he is to bring all his powers to bear on the work of learning, and it is easier to call out all his effort if he knows beforehand what is to be gained. To conduct a child along an unknown road toward an unknown object, by means of questions and hints, the object of which he does .not see, to lead him on imperceptibly to an unknown goal, has the disadvantage that it develops neither a spontaneous mental activity nor a clear insight into the subject.
Página 267 - Geography." —CHARLES DE GARMO, Professor of Pedagogy, Cornell University.

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