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Barnett, P. A.

 
9781330194256: Common Sense: In Education and Teaching; An Introduction to Practice (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

In Teaching With Common Sense, P. A. Barnett lays out practical, flexible approaches that put learners and development first.

This book argues against rigid rules and shows how great teaching adapts to each mind and body. It links curriculum ideas to real classroom life, emphasizing growth, individual differences, and thoughtful, human-centered practice.

The author champions a child-centered view of education, recognizing that learners develop at different speeds and from varied backgrounds. The text discusses how to design curricula, teach languages, and encourage speaking, reading, and thoughtful writing in ways that feel natural and useful to students.

Across topics like pronunciation, oral activity, and the use of objects and life situations in learning, the book promotes steady, practice-based progress over over-specified methods. It invites teachers to combine sound theory with attentive, responsive classroom work.

  • Emphasizes adapting instruction to each student’s pace, interests, and environment
  • Advocates learning through speech, real objects, and active participation
  • Warns against over-prescribing curricula or relying too much on abstract analysis
  • Supports integrating practice, discussion, and recitation to build lasting understanding

Ideal for educators seeking thoughtful, versatile strategies for modern teaching.

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Excerpt from Common Sense: In Education and Teaching; An Introduction to Practice

We have come next to recognise not only that chil dren generally must be treated as persons in process of development rather than as persons developed, but also that children differ among themselves, mentally and physically, and in antecedents and habitual environment. Progress is either slower or quicker, and more or less effectual, among different pupils.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Common Sense: In Education and Teaching; An Introduction to Practice

Leonato - Neighbours, you are tedious.

Dogberry - It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers ; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all on your worship. - (Much Ado About Nothing).

The basis of this book is a series of lectures, delivered during the winter session of 1898, on the practice of education. It would hardly, however, have been written, it would certainly not have been published, but for the welcome extended by both critics and general readers to the volume edited by me and published in 1897 under the title of Teaching and Organisation, which was an attempt to cover the whole of the ordinary field of education in chapters written by specialists who are also experts, teachers as well as teachers of special subjects.

When Teaching and Organisation first appeared, the value of the several chapters was acknowledged generously, but some critics of unquestionable authority thought that the book suffered somewhat, in spite of the Editor's efforts, from lack of a common point of view, of organic interconnexion.

Common Sense in Education does not presume to take the place of Teaching and Organisation.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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