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140.3 V.12

HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LIBRARY

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This will be a study of five great teachers. In the study of their life and work will be summed up the great educational movements of the past three centuries. The names selected about which this history of education will be grouped are Comenius, Basedow, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and Herbart.

2. Teaching and School Management.

The most important laws of teaching and problems of school
management will be discussed, their meaning considered, their
application illustrated. This will be a practical, helpful series.
3. Questions and Answers

used in teachers' examinations will be given each month.
GENERAL CULTURE.

In this department of the magazine there will be two courses
as during the past year.

1. American Progress, 1800-1900.
by Supt. Wm. E. Chancellor, of New Jersey, who has for many
years made a special and comprehensive study of history. He
was for some time head of the department of history in Erasmus
Hall high school, Brooklyn, and later was lecturer on history and
psychology in the School of Political Science of the Brooklyn
Institute of Sciences and Art. He is particularly well qualified
to present the wonderful social and economic progress of this
country in the present century. The course begins with the
September number and will give a concise but comprehensive
review of the history of the United States in the nineteenth
century, together with study hints and bibliographical notes.
The whole course will be an exceptionally profitable one, and
ought to appeal not only to educators but to all who take an
interest in the broader study of human affairs.

2. Studies in English Literature,

During the past year the course in literature has been a study of American authors of the nineteenth century. This is to be followed by similar studies of the great English writers...

TATE'S PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION. The December number will present to every subscriber Tate's "Philosophy of Education," a standard $1.50 book, long prized by educators as one of the most complete and valuable of all books on education. In no book published in the English language is given a clearer and more complete statement of educational principles. It contains 331 pages, has never been issued in a cheap edition, and is available now only in handsome cloth binding at $1.50. Subscribers will receive it free. LLOOO F. L. KELLOGG & CO., 61 East Ninth St., New York.

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CONOMY of energy is the intrinsic mark of all progress in nature and in art. . . Our motive should be to economize educative effort. The tendency of the mind is to relate all irregular forms to typical forms.

Education is the economy of self effort.

The two fundamental modes of self-effort are attention and expression.

Thought that does not tend to action dies or stagnates. Making is the material basis of life and living. Making is the complete externalization of individual concepts. Making is nature's primary method of human. growth. --FRANCIS WAYLAND PARKER.

Hints for Teaching Children to Think. 1. As a rule, never ask a question of which the answer must be (a) "Yes" or "No," or (b) one of two things. 2. As opportunity occurs, ask How? or Why? 3. Frequently ask for illustrations.

4. Occasionally ask a question requiring a few sentences for an answer. Allow the class a few moments in which to go over the answer in their minds before asking for "Hands up."

5. Sometimes analyze a wrong answer and get it put right.

6. At times accept answers to the same question from different children, then point out which answer is the best, and why it is so.

7. Discourage hasty answering (which is answering without thought), and the answering by a few bright children to the neglect of the lazy or dull.

8. Never allow children to answer without being called upon. They should put their hands up and wait.

(Consensus of a number of English school inspectors.)

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