North Carolina Education Vol 4 A Monthly Journal Of Education Rural Progress And Civic Betterment January 1910 Classic Reprint

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ISBN 13 : 9780332162089
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book North Carolina Journal of Education, 1897, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from North Carolina Journal of Education, 1897, Vol. 1 The slow growth in America of the idea of teaching reading and spelling by a rational method, when we consider the rapidity with which it spread on the continent, can be explained by the lack of legal power in the central school authority with us and by our devotion to English precedent. Obsolete methods of instruction in English schools are easily accounted for in the conservative spirit of that nation, which has been, until very recent years, quite as tenacious of its illiteracy as of so many of its other great and glorious institutions. While ambitious young men from our Ameri can colleges flock to the German universities, the American public school teacher, as a rule, seems content to-follow English precedent and preju dice, so far at least as concerns the teaching of reading and spelling, by far the two most impor tant branches in our school curriculum. The a, method still so popular in England was the main reliance of our teachers until about twenty years ago, when the Old English look-and-say method, under the less savage looking title of word method, became the Shibboleth of a party that cried aloud for it as an integral part of the new education. Perhaps the most popular book on teaching ever published in this country, the tables of stone of this new education gospel in America, asserts without even a suspicion of humor that phonic analysis has nothing whatever to do with that the best way to teach a child how to read a printed word is to hold up the object and write the name. 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.