Mistakes in Teaching

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C.W. Bardeen, 1898 - 126 páginas
 

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Página 108 - the earnest past, a boyhood fond of play and physical action, but averse to school-work, lies before me. The aversion did not arise from intellectual apathy or want of appetite for knowledge, but mainly from the fact that my earliest teachers lacked the power of imparting vitality to what they taught.
Página 109 - which the usual methods can never produce. Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired, any problem which he has himself solved, becomes by virtue of the conquest much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph
Página 110 - a way that no mere information heard from a teacher or read in a school book, can be registered. Even if he fail the tension to which his faculties have been wound up, insures his remembrance of the solution when
Página 110 - half a dozen repetitions would. Observe again, that this discipline necessitates a continuous organization of the knowledge he acquires. It is in the very nature of facts and inferences, assimilated in this normal manner, that they successively become the premises of further conclusions — the means of solving still further questions. The solution of yesterday's problem helps the pupil in mastering to-day's. Thus
Página 85 - begins. I have no compassion for sloth, but youth has more need for intellectual rest than age ; and the cheerfulness, the tenacity of purpose, the power of work, which make many a successful man what he is, must often be placed to the credit, not of his
Página 109 - The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity—the doing nothing for him which he is able to
Página 45 - MISTAKES IN DISCIPLINE. It is a mistake to try to teach without having good order. No teacher should think of teaching at all, until he has established between himself and his class a perfect understanding regarding this matter; until he has clearly shown his pupils that it
Página 110 - faculty as soon as it is taken in, and forthwith aids in the general function of thinking—does not lie merely written in the pages of an internal library, as when
Página 135 - Supplied separately; per 100 Merits, 15 cts.; Half Merits, 15 cts.; Cards, 15 cts.; Checks, 40 cts.; Certificates. 50 cts. Alden (Joseph). First Principles of Political Economy. 86 0 16:153 75
Página 50 - discipline is strict without being severe. There is no quicker way for a teacher to lose the respect of his pupils than by over-indulging them. They will not chafe long under just restraint. Control develops reverence. It is a mistake to think that order means perfect quiet or stillness. Many classes are quiet through sheer

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