Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880 |
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... name and character of a Science resolved it merely into a series of speculations into the relative value of different forms of human knowledge , or into the constitution of the The Ideal Teacher . 9 human mind . Those who 8 The Teacher ...
... name and character of a Science resolved it merely into a series of speculations into the relative value of different forms of human knowledge , or into the constitution of the The Ideal Teacher . 9 human mind . Those who 8 The Teacher ...
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... names of the qualities of objects , while the children repeated mechani- cally his favourite watchwords , which they had learned by heart . Those words had once been full of meaning . But they had ceased to represent real intellectual ...
... names of the qualities of objects , while the children repeated mechani- cally his favourite watchwords , which they had learned by heart . Those words had once been full of meaning . But they had ceased to represent real intellectual ...
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... name of arithmetic , is often taught more in the nature of a knack , or mechanical art , than as a mental discipline . Grammar too , considered as the art of correct speaking is matter of imitation rather than knowledge . And Physical ...
... name of arithmetic , is often taught more in the nature of a knack , or mechanical art , than as a mental discipline . Grammar too , considered as the art of correct speaking is matter of imitation rather than knowledge . And Physical ...
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... names appear on the school registers . Nothing so elaborate is needed in the case of higher schools , partly because no grant of public money is involved , and partly because in such schools the scholars attend much more regularly . But ...
... names appear on the school registers . Nothing so elaborate is needed in the case of higher schools , partly because no grant of public money is involved , and partly because in such schools the scholars attend much more regularly . But ...
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... name is to assume that his character is formed , and this happily is not true even of your worst scholars . If it were true , what could be more discouraging , more fatal to the success of any poor struggles he may make to set himself ...
... name is to assume that his character is formed , and this happily is not true even of your worst scholars . If it were true , what could be more discouraging , more fatal to the success of any poor struggles he may make to set himself ...
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