The Essentials of Method (Classic Reprint): A Discussion of the Essential Form of Right Methods in Teaching: A Discussion of the Essential Form of Right Methods in Teaching (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Essentials of Method: A Discussion of the Essential Form of Right Methods in Teaching

The present work deals with one phase of this adjust ment of subject-matter to mind. It seeks to find the essen tial forms of methods of instruction, as determined by the general law of development in the mind of the child. It has therefore nothing to do with the content of knowledge.

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Analogies play an important rôle in all explanations of mental phenomena. This is true because nearly all our terms for mental processes and products are borrowed from sense. Among the many analogical theories of mind, and hence of education, two are particularly prominent: (1) That which regards the soul as a germ, containing by involution that which it is to become by evolution, - a self-active power which seizes upon its surroundings, appropriating what is useful for the development of its predetermined form and content; and (2) that theory which regards the mind at any given stage of its development as the resultant of the manifold forces of its environment, as a product more externally than internally produced.

The first of these views may be called the germ theory of education; the second, the architectural theory. According to the first notion, the mind is a self-producer of a predetermined product. According to the second, it is the result produced by the educational architect. The first conception makes the teacher merely a gardener; the second makes him an architect of mind.

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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.