Excerpt from Principles and Methods of Teaching
The essential purpose of every book on teaching must be to help teachers in their actual daily work. In this way only can it effectually assist them when they offer themselves for examination in that work. An answer to a question on the practice of teaching is valuable exactly in proportion as it shows that the writer has not only read about the subject, but has assimilated the principles laid down in his text-book and made them part of that living thought which finds expression in the daily work of the class-room. A competent examiner discriminates at once between such answers and those which are mere verbal reproductions of text-book methods which have never influenced the writer"s practice. It is therefore hoped that this book may be of value to candidates for examination in the subject of which it treats by helping them to become better teachers.
The treatment is meant to be theoretical - in the sense of setting forth a consistent and co-ordinated body of doctrine. Such theory is, of course, involved in all true practice. No attempt has been made to set forth explicit directions how to carry out every small piece of teaching. The model for a work on teaching should not be a book on cookery, with its detailed recipes directing the reader how to produce by rule of thumb certain specific results.
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