The studies and methods of teaching in Prussian schools by Wittich Wilhelm 1782-1848

Author:Wittich, Wilhelm, 1782-1848. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Education
Publisher: New York, American common school society
Published: 1838-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

add to the instruction by the senses some interesting mental instruction. In showing plants which are cultivated, he takes some notice of the manner of their cultivation. In exhibiting the figures of animals, he gives some account of their modes of life and peculiar habits, etc. But the impression on the senses themselves must always be the principal end to which the instruction is directed, else it is likely that the child will conceive a wrong idea of the object.

After such a copious preparatory instruction, the teacher begins a regular course, which consists of aiding the children to acquire a correct idea of the place in whicb they live, of its neighborhood, the district in which it is situated, of the province to which It belongs, and lastly, of the monarchy. The place in which children live, is, properly speaking, their world; and many persons, during the entire period of their life, have not an opportunity of seeing more than the villages of their neighborhood and one or two towns.

The school-building is the first object to which the attention of children is called. The school-room is first measured by paces, and drawn on a small scale on a paper. Then the things, fixed within it, are added. The teacher then begins to acquaint the children with the materials of which the building consists, and of the persons and tradesmen who have been employed in erecting it, showing them also the tools which they used. Afterwards he directs the^^ attention to the objects which are in

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