This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...result. If the proper steps are taken to acquire the knowledge, the effort made is discipline, but the object for which the child reaches is knowledge. It is confidence, not chance, which guides the hand when the object sought is near. This may seem like superrogatory reasoning, and so should I myself regard it did I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...result. If the proper steps are taken to acquire the knowledge, the effort made is discipline, but the object for which the child reaches is knowledge. It is confidence, not chance, which guides the hand when the object sought is near. This may seem like superrogatory reasoning, and so should I myself regard it did I not know that this coordinate quality of knowledge and discipline, the former only being within the child's conception, is not recognized in many of our schools, and it is due to this fact that so many failures are recorded. Let me illustrate: When the child has learned to recognize words at sight, he has his vocabulary in a new form. The lessons which he reads have in them matter, which, for the purposes of education, may be called knowledge; that is, the child reads to get the thought through the medium of these words. It is his incentive to the desired intellectual activity. If he does get the thought he is undergoing a regimen of discipline through which he acquires the power of actual knowledge-getting from the printed page. There is no intrinsic value in what he reads, but the interesting story supplies the motive for intellectual effort. Following the facts and connecting them into a continuous whole give the discipline, and the recital of the story in his own words is the proof. But too often the teacher defeats the object of the recitation by failing to realize that discipline comes through the child's effort to get the facts and translate them into his own ideas. The test of questioning to determine whether the substance has been grasped, and thus ascertain whether the mind has been actively recipient, has either not been applied at all, or in such manner as to make the pupil rely upon the teacher to glean the thought from his perfunc...
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VG+ No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pub by Sydney Pratt, Manitowoc WI, 1902. NOT exLib. VG+ cond. hardcover now in archival grade Brodart, no dj. Red cloth over bds w/ black framing & lettering on cover & spine. P/O's signature in pencil on ffep, o/w book is clean & unmarked throughout. 356pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG+ cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
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