Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...demonstration of a science, and art, I think, has to be learned by trial and failure. The true teacher is born, not made, and the most pedagogy can hope to do is to give hints. The most successful adapt themselves to the state of mind of those they teach. I purpose to offer suggestions along the line of history, large and broad, but brief and general, which each will have to apply for himself. When we come where specializations are necessary, on the whole the person who knows his subject best will teach it best. Get then a comprehensive grasp...
Professor Goodale emphasized the fact that the object every careful teacher should constantly have in mind in his teaching is to awaken interest in the subject on the part of the pupil, and to encourage him to ask questions of himself. He will then naturally turn to nature for his answers...
...discussing such a proposition, however, there is a practical side to be kept in mind. Whatever the nature of the building may be, the money to build it must be raised by subscription, and (if the building is to be on college grounds as proposed) must be given over to the Corporation of Harvard College. It is the Corporation which must own and control the building. Moreover the nature of the building must be such as designated by the deed of gift, and the Corporation has no authority to devote it to purposes which in their judgment do not comply...
...Pourgeot's Cat," by H. P. Dodge. The former is a description of the struggle which the mayor of a sleepy, contented old English village goes through when he is besought by an American cousin to come to the land of "booms" and make his fortune. The peace of mind which comes to the old man when he finally comes to his senses and rids himself of the "latent germ of greediness and ambition," is delightfully portrayed...
...taking up of certain other subjects was put off too long. As a result of the suggestions, then, if they are followed, the time devoted to some of the very elementary studies will be cut down, and other studies be introduced earlier in the course, when the young mind is as ready to grasp them. In this way the ground now covered by the grammar schools will be gone over in a much shorter time. From the recommendations of the Association it is difficult to make out whether they mean the grammar school course to be shortened, or whether...