The Passing of the RecitationD. C. Heath, 1928 - 331 páginas |
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ability activities adult arithmetic assignment calls chapter character child classroom conception Consequently contract coöperation course of study curriculum Dalton Plan discussion E. P. Dutton Educational Psychology emphasize example experience facts function girls grade habits of study Helen Parkhurst Herbart Herbartian High School Houghton Mifflin Ibid ideals illustrate individual differences individual instruction instincts interests involves Kilpatrick knowledge lesson Macmillan Company materials mathematics means ment method of teaching mind Miss Parkhurst's monitorial system National Education Association National Society nature needs organization original period practice present principles problems progress project method psychology reading realize recapitulation theory recitation system reference responses sense situation skills socialized recitation specific spelling stage Study of Education subject matter suggested supervised study teacher thinking Thorndike tion topic unit University of Chicago University of Kansas Winnetka Winnetka plan Yearbook
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Página 138 - We may, then, define an instinct as an inherited or innate psycho-physical disposition which determines its possessor to perceive, and to pay attention to, objects of a certain class, to experience an emotional excitement of a particular quality upon perceiving such an object, and to act in regard to it in a particular manner, or, at least, to experience an impulse to such action.
Página 66 - Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. The qualities of body and soul that now emerge are far newer. The child comes from and harks back to a remoter past; the adolescent is neo-atavistic, and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent.
Página 122 - None of the things they are to learn should ever be made a burden to them, or imposed on them as a task. Whatever is so proposed presently becomes irksome : the mind takes an aversion to it, though before it were a thing of delight or indifferency.
Página 55 - Education consists in leading man, as a thinking, intelligent being, growing into self-consciousness, to a pure and unsullied, conscious and free representation of the inner law of Divine Unity, and in teaching him ways and means thereto.
Página 122 - Mind to it; let this be but required of him as a Duty, wherein he must spend so many Hours Morning and Afternoon, and see whether he will not soon be weary of any Play at this Rate?
Página 52 - ... seed and root. Man is similar to the tree. In the new-born child are hidden those faculties which are to unfold during life. The individual and separate organs of his being form themselves gradually into unison, and build up humanity in the image of God.
Página 82 - 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 80 - Any man possesses at the very start of his life — that is, at the moment when the ovum and spermatozoon which are to produce him have united — numerous well-defined tendencies to future behavior. Between the situations which he will meet and the responses which he will make to them, pre-formed bonds exist.
Página 66 - The child comes from and harks back to a remoter past; the adolescent is neo-atavistic and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent. Development is less gradual and more saltatory, suggestive of some ancient period of storm and stress when old moorings were broken and a higher level attained.
Página 55 - Now, the representation of the infinite in the finite, of the eternal in the temporal, of the celestial in the terrestrial, of the divine in and through man, in the life of man by the nursing of his originally divine nature, confronts us unmistakably on every side as the only object, the only aim of all education, in all instruction and training.