First Steps Of Political Economy

Author : Montague R. Leverson
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ISBN 13 : 9781331308355
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Common Sense, Or First Steps in Political Economy, for the Use of Families and Normal Classes, and of Pupils in District, Elementary and Grammar Schools written by Montague R. Leverson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Common Sense, or First Steps in Political Economy, for the Use of Families and Normal Classes, and of Pupils in District, Elementary and Grammar Schools: Being a Popular Introduction to the Most Important Truths Regarding Labor and Capital This work is published, chiefly, in the hope of its having some influence towards the introduction of the teaching of moral and economical science in our schools. It is also intended to help all persons, including children, even without the aid of a teacher, to acquire some knowledge of the most important truths of those sciences. It will, it is hoped, be impossible for any person, after reading this little work, to question the practicability of imparting a competent knowledge of morals and of political economy even to young children. The circumstances which gave occasion to the work furnish additional evidence of this fact. In the winter of 1867-8 the author, as a volunteer teacher, gave a series of lessons in the Saturday Normal School of New York to a class of post-graduate teachers "on the object and method of imparting to young children a knowledge of the conditions of human well-being, commonly called 'political economy'." The class numbered about thirty at its commencement, and about thirty-five at its close, and, although the teachers could gain no advancement whatever from their attendance, their punctuality was remarkable, and equalled, if it did not exceed, that of any other class in the institution, although attendance at such other classes on the part of the under-graduate teachers was indispensable to their advancement. The teachers who attended the author's lessons became enthusiastic for the introduction of the teaching of the science into our schools, while the effect upon their own minds, in the additional power it gave them in their teaching was such, that nearly every member of that class has become noted as a specially skilled and earnest teacher. 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.