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It is among those who have received no professional preparation , that one finds
the same stupid traditional methods , the same habit of telling scholars to learn
instead of teaching them ; the same spectacle of a master sitting enthroned at
one ...
It is among those who have received no professional preparation , that one finds
the same stupid traditional methods , the same habit of telling scholars to learn
instead of teaching them ; the same spectacle of a master sitting enthroned at
one ...
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But you try to tell the story or reproduce the explanation , and you find quite
unexpectedly that there are weak points in your memory , that something or other
which did not seem necessary when you were receiving it , is necessary to your ...
But you try to tell the story or reproduce the explanation , and you find quite
unexpectedly that there are weak points in your memory , that something or other
which did not seem necessary when you were receiving it , is necessary to your ...
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How far will this kind of reading tell upon my professional work in school ? '
though it naturally occurs to a conscientious man , is narrowing and rather
ignoble . The man is something greater than the teacher . The human Not of
needs crave to ...
How far will this kind of reading tell upon my professional work in school ? '
though it naturally occurs to a conscientious man , is narrowing and rather
ignoble . The man is something greater than the teacher . The human Not of
needs crave to ...
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Everything you learn , even in matters like these , will tell in ways you little
suppose on the success of your lessons , will furnish happy digressions , or will
suggest new illustrations . « Tout est dans tout , ' said Jacotot , by which I
suppose he ...
Everything you learn , even in matters like these , will tell in ways you little
suppose on the success of your lessons , will furnish happy digressions , or will
suggest new illustrations . « Tout est dans tout , ' said Jacotot , by which I
suppose he ...
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But to do this well it is essential that the skilled teacher should cultivate in himself
the rather rare gift of telling a story well . There are some who are good
raconteurs by nature or by instinct . They know how to seize the right point , to
reject what ...
But to do this well it is essential that the skilled teacher should cultivate in himself
the rather rare gift of telling a story well . There are some who are good
raconteurs by nature or by instinct . They know how to seize the right point , to
reject what ...
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| Title | Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880 |
| Author | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1881 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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