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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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Excerpt from Manual of Object-Teaching: With Illustrative Lessons in Methods and the Science of Education Knowing that which is needful to be learned is a great attainment. Knowing what should be taught, and how to teach it, is a high art. To secure this necessary attainment is the first duty of every teacher. To master the high art is like unto the first duty in its importance; it enhances the value of the attainment in knowledge, and insures success in the great work of education. It is strangely curious that the doing of the same thing may be both easy and difficult - easy when done in the right way, difficult when done in the wrong way. Success attends the doing in the right way; failure...
Excerpt from Object Teaching: A Lecture; Delivered at the Pupil Teacher Centre, William Street Board School, Hammersmith, May 13, 1882; With an Appendix on the Use of the Box of Apparatus A scholar of Pestalozzi's school, in which this book was being used.1 When they came to the picture of a ladder, the little boy said that there was a real ladder out in the garden, and they might bring it in. The teacher said that would be very troublesome, so he was content with the picture. But on another day they were talking about a window, and the same little boy, who was not to be put down so easily, said that there was a window already in the schoolroom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes ...