Excerpt from A Short History of Education While I may be wrong in the general hypothesis, I feel thati am right in the following particulars There must be some teachers who are more than mere instruments. More than operatives, more than artisans; there must be some who can see processes as they are related to law, - who, while obedient to law, can throw their own personality into their methods and can make such adaptations of them as varying circumstances may demand. If most teach ers are doomed to be the slaves of routine ...
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Excerpt from A Short History of Education While I may be wrong in the general hypothesis, I feel thati am right in the following particulars There must be some teachers who are more than mere instruments. More than operatives, more than artisans; there must be some who can see processes as they are related to law, - who, while obedient to law, can throw their own personality into their methods and can make such adaptations of them as varying circumstances may demand. If most teach ers are doomed to be the slaves of routine, there must be some who have the ability to create and to control. In a word, along with the great multitude of mere teachers, there must be a growing body of educators. I cannot but think that in every normal school there are men and women who would love to walk upon these heights, to breathe this freer air, and who would thus see in teaching a fair field for the exercise of their best gifts. The attention of such should be drawn somewhat away from the merely mechanical aspects of teaching, and fixed on those professional studies that will broaden the Iteacher's vision and give him the consciousness of some degree of creative power. The studies I mean are educational science and educational his tory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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