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Excerpt from A Talk on Teaching, Given at a Conference of Members of the Instructing Staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 20, 1908
These considerations may be summed up by saying that problem-solving is by far the most effective means we have of developing mental power. We must make such work as large as possible a part of our courses, making place for it by the omission of much other material, important though it may be. We must insist on independent work in the solution of problems, but in doing it we must be ready to give assistance to the individual student. Our examina tions Should be made a test of his power to handle problems connected with the subject rather than a test of his knowl edge; and the record we give him should depend mainly on his success in this direction. 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.
