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Lectures on the Science and Art of Education, with Other Lectures

Lectures on the Science and Art of Education, with Other Lectures

Payne, Joseph

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General World History

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ISBN10: 0217964648
ISBN13: 9780217964647
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PRACTICE OR ART OF EDUCATION. The Theory of Education, as explained in the former Lecture, consists in an appreciation of the influences which must be brought to bear intentionally, consciously, and persistently on a child, with a view to instruct him in knowledge, develope his faculties, and train them to the formation of habits. It was shown that this view of Education assumes that the educator must himself study and comprehend the nature of these influences; and that this theoretical study, aided by the lessons of experience, both personal and that of others, constitutes his own education. Assuming, then, the education of the educator himself, which involves a due conception of the end in view, we have now to consider some of the means by which he has to realize it, and this constitutes the Practice or Art of Education. I have already disclaimed the idea of attempting to construct a systematical science of education, and am not bound, therefore, to deduce a systematical art from a theoretical ideal. Nor is this necessary, for whatever may be said of the Theory, there is no doubt that the Art of Education exists, and that its fundamental principles can be evolved from its practice. The Art of Education, strictly considered, involves all the means by which the educator brings his influence to bear on his pupils, and embraces therefore, organization, discipline, school economics, the regulation of studies, etc. Our limited space, however, forbids our entering on these matters, and the '' Art of Education will in this lecture be considered as only another term for Teaching or Instruction. If we observe the process which we call instruction, we see two parties conjointly engaged?the learner and the teacher. The object of both is the same, but their relations to...

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