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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: lectual Training of a Child.?The teacher should store the minds of his pupils. The more knowledge he communicates to them the better; provided that, in giving it, he does not cripple their power to gain knowledge independently for themselves. It would be a serious error to compel tach child to attempt to acquire for himself by original experiments and investigation the accumulated knowledge of nearly sixty centuries. It would -be a still greater blunder for the teacher to attempt to communicate all this knowledge to his pupils. The amount even of known truth that can be learned during school life is comparatively small. Valuable as knowledge may be, the power to acquire it independently is better. The more I value knowledge, the more carefully will I train my pupils, that they may be able to gain it for themselves after they leave school. What an advantage it will be to them to be keenly receptive to truth from books, from their fellow- men, and from the world of nature The result of proper intellectual training should not be merely increased wisdom, but additional power to investigate known truth, and make discoveries of truths yet unrevealed. 3. It is a Mistake to Think that Education should be Completed at School.?There is very little systematic study done after school-life with a definite idea of disciplining the mind, or widening the intellectual vision. The years when men should do their best independent work are usually wasted. There is no stronger condemnation of a system of education possible, than the fact that a race of pupils trained under it leaves school without the desire as well as the ability for further study. chapter{{Section 4Pupils have naturally a desire for knowledge. Like every other good tendency that desire may be developed, increased in depth and i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217236874 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217236871 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 180 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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