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INTEREST IN TEACHING. Source of enjoyment in teaching.--The boy and the steam-engine.--His contrivance.--His pleasure, and the source of it.--Firing at the mark.--Plan of clearing the galleries in the British House of Commons.--Pleasure of experimenting, and exercising intelle...
Under the title which I have placed at the head of this chapter I intend to discuss the methods by which the teacher is to secure a moral ascendency over his pupils, so that he...
17. Chapter 17There is, perhaps, no way by which a writer can more effectually explain his views on the subject of education than by presenting a great variety of actual cases, whether real o...
12. Chapter 12There are three kinds of human knowledge which stand strikingly distinct from all the rest. They lie at the foundation. They constitute the roots of the tree. In other words, th...
15. Chapter 15Perhaps there is no way by which teachers can, in a given time, do more to acquire a knowledge of their art, and an interest in it, than by visiting each others' schools.
11. Chapter 11The distraction and perplexity of the teacher's life are, as was explained in the last chapter, almost proverbial. There are other pressing and exhausting pursuits, which wear a...
14. Chapter 14In consequence of the unexampled religious freedom possessed in this country, for which it is happily distinguished above all other countries on the face of the earth, there nec...
18. Chapter 18The teacher enters upon the duties of his office by a much more sudden transition than is common in the other avocations and employments of life. In ordinary cases, business com...
16. Chapter 16Some of the best teachers in our country, or, rather, of those who might be the best, lose a great deal of their time, and endanger, or perhaps entirely destroy, their hopes of...
10. Chapter 10A most singular contrariety of opinion prevails in the community in regard to the _pleasantness_ of the business of teaching. Some teachers go to their daily task merely upon co...
3. Chapter 3INSTRUCTION. The three important branches.--The objects which are really most important.--Advanced scholars.--Examination of school and scholars at the outset.--Acting on number...
4. Chapter 4MORAL DISCIPLINE. First impressions.--Story.--Danger of devoting too much attention to individual instances.--The profane boy.--Case described.--Confession of the boys.--Success...
2. Chapter 21. Whispering and leaving seats.--An experiment.--Method of regulating this.--Introduction of the new plan.--Difficulties.--Dialogue with pupils.--Study-card.--Construction and...
5. Chapter 5Agreement in religious opinion in this country.--Principle which is to guide the teacher on this subject.--Limits and restrictions to religious influence in school.--Religious t...
6. Chapter 6MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL. Reason for inserting the description.--Advantage of visiting schools, and of reading descriptions of them.--Addressed to a new scholar.--Her personal duty.-...
8. Chapter 8REPORTS OF CASES. Plan of the chapter.--Hats and bonnets.--Injury to clothes.--Mistakes which are not censurable.--Tardiness; plan for punishing it.--Helen's lesson.--Firmness i...
7. Chapter 7SCHEMING. Time lost upon fruitless schemes.--Proper province of ingenuity and enterprise.--Cautions.--Case supposed.--The spelling class; an experiment with it; its success and...
1. Chapter 1INTEREST IN TEACHING. Source of enjoyment in teaching.--The boy and the steam-engine.--His contrivance.--His pleasure, and the source of it.--Firing at the mark.--Plan of cleari...
9. Chapter 9THE TEACHER'S FIRST DAY. Embarrassments of young teachers in first entering upon their duties.--Preliminary information to be acquired in respect to the school.--Visits to the p...