Excerpt from Teaching Boys and Girls How to Study: Being a Brief Treatment of the Subject of the Training of Pupils in Right Habits of Study Through Proper Conduct of the Class Period
These widespread criticisms, so insistent and general, coming as they have from school officials and laymen, finally influenced this study of the underlying causes which prompted them.
In this study it was the good fortune of the writer to work under a teacher who presented an entirely new viewpoint in regard to school work, and it was due to his influence that this research work in the Manitowoc schools was undertaken. Whatever growth I have made, whatever help and inspiration have been given to the teachers, whatever development the pupils have attained, not only mentally but also morally, through this new method of conducting class work, is largely due to the inspiration of this great teacher.
Incidentally it may be said that school conditions in Manitowoc were good, the teaching was average, there was a very good corps of teachers and splendid co-operation, and results attained here could be duplicated in any city.
In the first place, before attempting any radical changes in the methods of teaching, an investigation was made of the teaching in the city schools and it was found that while in some cases the work was exceptional, in a general way subjects were being handled as they had been for years previous. The teachers were doing most of the work and the pupils were not doing the kind of work, either in preparing their lessons or in reciting, that would develop right habits of study.
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. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Teaching Boys and Girls How to Study (Peter Jeremiah Zimmers)