Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Study of Nature
The teacher is the trained individual set by experience to accomplish, by the quickening processes Of method and principle, the speediest orderly comprehension in each individual of the richest inheritance of thought that the race has treasured for its legitimate heir, the child. The teacher studies the time element in the educational process. He is conscious of the need for such an elimination of non-vital elements in the data of the school as will bring the learner in the briefest time to the highest mental development and to the posses sion of a fairly varied and extended field of facts. The teacher also studies the mental complex of each learner, and ascertains how this varies in the several learners and in the several stages of growth in each learner. This knowledge, combined with relatively full under standing Of the subject matter to be taught, enables him to bring the learner speedily and surely into his best estate.
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