Author : Massachusetts Teachers Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391592060
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Book Synopsis The Massachusetts Teacher, 1849, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) by : Massachusetts Teachers Association
Download or read book The Massachusetts Teacher, 1849, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Massachusetts Teachers Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Massachusetts Teacher, 1849, Vol. 2 The profession demand it from the nature and object of their employment. The direct object of the teacher's labor is the mind: to de velop and educate the intellect, to awaken its faculties, direct and discipline them, is the office and nature of his profession. A considerable portion of the time and labor which are now de voted to teaching are expended in experiment; in ascertaining and then testing the best modes of communicating knowledge. Could his energy and exertion be employed in accordance with the rules of a perfect and complete system of teaching, in which he might safely confide, much greater and more satisfactory results would be accomplished; much time would be saved and the cause of infinite perplexities removed. But such a complete system does not exist. There is no established system of mental philosophy, even; in no other department of knowledge have great minds differed so widely in their speculations, or arrived at results so startlingly opposed. And the principles of teach ing and governing in schools must be learned at the present day, as they always have been, by experience. Eminent teachers have lived who taught with wonderful success, and they have been rendered immortal by the fame of their scholars: but of their peculiar modes of instruction, of the causes and sources of their success, we are almost wholly ignorant: the fruit of their experience has been buried with them. 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.