Excerpt from Systematic Science Teaching: A Manual of Inductive Elementary Work for All Instructors
A Manual of instruction in natural science for use in the elementary schools has long been in request; but attempts to supply this have hitherto failed, for one of two reasons. Either they were one-sided, giving too much prominence to some narrow field of science and apparently assuming that other fields had no claim on the attention of the pupil, or else they have given too little assistance to the teacher or the pupil, and have limited themselves to offering vague general directions as to matter and method. The teacher"s manual should give much of the matter to be taught, and make definite references to other sources of information for much more material. Above all, it should illustrate methods of instruction; it should show the method of investigation adapted to each province of Nature. A dry list of topics, although arranged in the proper sequence, does not make a sufficient manual. It should give enough of the results of scientific research to set the teacher and pupil on the right track of inquiry. It should direct his investigation in a twofold direction: First, to authoritative books written by competent scientific men, and setting forth in a clear and succinct manner the results of the observations and experiments of scientific specialists in each field.
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