Oscar Gerson
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 296
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Excerpt from Instruction in the Grades, Values and Methods: A d104book for Normal Students and Young Teachers This little book is the outgrowth of a series of lectures delivered to groups of teachers - candidates for Supervising Principals' certificates at the annual examinations in Philadelphia - and is published in response to their urgent request. Throughout the book the reader will find that value as determining aim is regarded as inseparable from a philosophic treatment of method. The constant necessity of considering values and aims, which I have never tired of proclaiming, has made this work rather different from the ordinary treatise on method. It is, however, the recognition of this point of view which has lifted, or will lift, teaching from a trade to a profession. Every live teacher must, if only occasionally, catch a glimpse of the blue sky of educational ideals through the narrow, barred windows of tradition. Although I have carried out the relationship of aim and method in considerable detail, and have applied it to most of the curricular subjects, I cannot but feel that such repetition is justified by the vital importance of this view-point. 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.