Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Selection of Textbooks
Our inadequate teaching stafi for America in creases the importance of the textbook in school life, for the more poorly equipped the teacher is the more he or she is dependent on the text book for guidance in scholarship and method of instruction. Indeed, we have in recent years come to recog nize the truth that one of the best methods of introducing educational reforms is to give new principles and methods that incorporation which the textbook permits and requires. Abstract lectures and books on the art of teaching render an important service, but they reach only a few of the best teachers. When these pedagogical truths are given a concrete and usable organiza tion in a textbook the whole body of teachers is reached and influenced. 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.
