Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880 |
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... Knowledge of the thing to be taught Preparation Extra - professional Knowledge Temper · Activity and Cheerfulness Avoidance of Pedantry • Power of describing and narrating Freshness of mind Sympathy The work of Assistants Limits to ...
... Knowledge of the thing to be taught Preparation Extra - professional Knowledge Temper · Activity and Cheerfulness Avoidance of Pedantry • Power of describing and narrating Freshness of mind Sympathy The work of Assistants Limits to ...
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... knowledge Oral instruction - its advantages and its dangers Self - tuition • Book - work , its advantages and shortcomings Home and written exercises Conditions to be fulfilled by them Illustrative examples • PAGE 138 141 143 145 146 ...
... knowledge Oral instruction - its advantages and its dangers Self - tuition • Book - work , its advantages and shortcomings Home and written exercises Conditions to be fulfilled by them Illustrative examples • PAGE 138 141 143 145 146 ...
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... knowledge of the best rules and methods which have to be used , and of the principles which underlie and justify those rules . It is easy to say of a schoolmaster ' nascitur non fit , ' and to give this as a reason why all training and ...
... knowledge of the best rules and methods which have to be used , and of the principles which underlie and justify those rules . It is easy to say of a schoolmaster ' nascitur non fit , ' and to give this as a reason why all training and ...
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... knowledge , of rendering it attractive to a learner , is an art which has its own laws and its own special philosophy ; it is surely fitting that a great University , the bountiful mother whose special office it is to care alike for all ...
... knowledge , of rendering it attractive to a learner , is an art which has its own laws and its own special philosophy ; it is surely fitting that a great University , the bountiful mother whose special office it is to care alike for all ...
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... knowledge of the subject which he essays to teach . But I am not sure that the full significance of this obvious maxim is always recognized . Some of us imagine that if we keep a little ahead of our pupils , we shall succeed very well ...
... knowledge of the subject which he essays to teach . But I am not sure that the full significance of this obvious maxim is always recognized . Some of us imagine that if we keep a little ahead of our pupils , we shall succeed very well ...
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