What Children Study and why: A Discussion of Educational Values in the Elementary Course of StudySilver, Burdett, 1913 - Всего страниц: 331 Why is the course of study in use in our elementary schools constituted as it is? Why are reading, spelling, arithmetic, grammar, and history taught, rather than knitting and shooting and guiding automobiles? What particular gift has each element to bestow upon the children, and hence upon society, as justification for its place in the curriculum? These are questions that should be answered by teachers, parents, and public officials, if best results are to be obtained from the schools. No attempt is made in this book to trace the history of the curriculum, but in it tries to give in plain, nontechnical terms a few of the practical psychological and sociological reason for teaching the subjects found in most elementary school curricula. The benefits from these studies, to the children and to society are briefly outlined. |
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... thing has been wrong , because these subjects are fun- damental in mathematics . But a knowledge of duo- decimals is not essential to work in percentage , even if it comes before it in the book . - Course should be Rich in Suggestion ...
... thing has been wrong , because these subjects are fun- damental in mathematics . But a knowledge of duo- decimals is not essential to work in percentage , even if it comes before it in the book . - Course should be Rich in Suggestion ...
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... things are prescribed , that very fact makes them mechanical and impairs or destroys their efficiency . Here is the opportunity of the superintendent , in making the course , to do his highest work , and for the teacher , while ...
... things are prescribed , that very fact makes them mechanical and impairs or destroys their efficiency . Here is the opportunity of the superintendent , in making the course , to do his highest work , and for the teacher , while ...
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... knowledge derived from the actual contact with things comes through the spoken word , the uncertainties of oral recital . Without the art of recording thoughts in symbols and the twin art of 13 READING-FUNCTION OF THE READING LESSON.
... knowledge derived from the actual contact with things comes through the spoken word , the uncertainties of oral recital . Without the art of recording thoughts in symbols and the twin art of 13 READING-FUNCTION OF THE READING LESSON.
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... thing read should of course contain worthy thought . It is not necessary to fill primers with history or geography or philosophy , but they should contain statements that mean something to the children and something worth while , facts ...
... thing read should of course contain worthy thought . It is not necessary to fill primers with history or geography or philosophy , but they should contain statements that mean something to the children and something worth while , facts ...
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... things , based upon principles . There is a Best Way . - Necessarily there is a best way of doing everything that is to be done , but not a univer- sally best way . The best way for me may not be the best way for you , and the best way ...
... things , based upon principles . There is a Best Way . - Necessarily there is a best way of doing everything that is to be done , but not a univer- sally best way . The best way for me may not be the best way for you , and the best way ...
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Стр. 198 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
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Стр. 277 - John's ideal John; never the real one, and often very unlike him. 3. Thomas's ideal John; never the real John, nor John's John, but often very unlike either.
Стр. 86 - Consider for a moment what grammar is. It is the most elementary part of logic. It is the beginning of the analysis of the thinking process. The principles and rules of grammar are the means by which the forms of language are made to correspond with the universal forms of thought.
Стр. 32 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave.
Стр. 199 - If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve, for many generations, the remembrance of the city of God...
Стр. 121 - I WAS just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects.
Стр. 169 - I must anticipate a time when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Стр. 28 - Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in gifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.