Elementary principles of education / by Edward L. Thorndike and Arthur I. Gates.
"This volume is intended for use as a textbook in a first course in principle of education. The authors have endeavored, first to select those general facts and principles which will be of most service to typical elementary and high school-teachers. They have tried, secondly, to present these f...
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New York :
Macmillan Co.,
1929.
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Table of Contents:
- The province of education
- The ultimate aims of education
- The major present needs of education
- The original nature of man
- The main characteristics of learning
- The acquisition of knowledge and the ability to think
- The acquisition of motor, moral, and appreciative reactions
- The choice of subjects and activities
- The influence of age and maturity
- The influence of individual differences
- Methods of teaching
- Methods of teaching (continued)
- Appraising the results of education
- Functions of the elementary, secondary, and higher schools.