The philosophy of teaching. The teacher, the pupil, the school by Sands Nathaniel

Author:Sands, Nathaniel. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Teaching
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Published: 1869-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

THE SCHOOL.

THE SCHOOL.

UPON the organization and arrangement of tlie school largely depends the success of the educator. Two things must be borne constantly in mind. First, to create truthful and intellectual atmosphere, where wisdom, honor, and knowledge can be inhaled as with the breath, and second, to make the school cheerful and attractive in every way possible. We must get rid of the idea now generally prevailing among children, that the school is to be resorted to with regret and escaped from with pleasure.

So soon as the child will look at and become interested in pictures and toys, and will listen to tales and little stories, it can profitably be introduced in the school, the first department of which should be the Infant-school, or, as the Germans so aptly term it, the children's garden, or Kinder Garten.

Here plaiting, modelling, and building, with simple object lessons for the older infants, develop their powers of observation, and give employment and impart skill to little fingers which might else be engaged in destroying furniture or clothes, or in pilfering from the sugar-bowl. Practical familiarity with the properties of lines, angles, circles, spheres, cylinders, cubes, cones, and the conic sections will be acquired, which

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