Category: Teaching & Education
What is the central purpose of education? If we include under this term all the things commonly assigned to it, its many phases as represented by the great variety of teachers and pupils, the many branches of knowledge and the various and even conflicting methods in bringing u...
Being convinced that the controlling aim of education should be moral, we shall now inquire into the relative value of different studies and their fitness to reach and satisfy t...
4. Chapter 4By concentration is meant such a connection between the parts of each study and such a spinning of relations and connecting links between different sciences that unity may sprin...
5. Chapter 5We are now prepared to inquire into the mind's method of approach to any and all subjects. We have considered the aim of education, the value of different subjects as helping to...
6. Chapter 6We have now to deal with a principle of pedagogy upon which all the leading ideas thus far discussed largely depend for their realization. Interest, concentration, and induction...
3. Chapter 3By interest we mean the natural bent or inclination of the mind to find satisfaction in a subject when it is properly presented. It is the natural attractiveness of the subject...
7. Chapter 7We have now completed the discussion of the concept-bearing or inductive process in learning and apperception, and find that they both tend to the unifying of knowledge and to t...
1. Chapter 1What is the central purpose of education? If we include under this term all the things commonly assigned to it, its many phases as represented by the great variety of teachers a...
8. Chapter 8"Then, only, can a person be said to draw education under his control, when he has the wisdom to bring forth in the youthful soul a great circle or body of ideas, well knit toge...