Education Pamphlets Volume N . 84 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...this again ought to be conducted and the papers marked by the teacher who has had charge of the class in the given subject B. T. Davis, Superintendent of Schools, Winona, Minn. 10. Elementary education should be introduced with kindergarten instruction at about four years. The child will begin by acting and doing, the handling of things and the working out, through forms, his ideas and thought as developed to him. He will begin by the handling of forms, seeing and observing; following this by making and representing, and will be gradually led from the very concrete representations to more abstract written forms, following with oral and written language, through which reading soon becomes a part, and numbers have been a concrete companion from the start. Color has also been a companion of form. Nature study has been introduced from the very start. The child has been taught to observe, interpret, and express the ideas and thoughts arising in its own environment. During the first and second years language, with all of its parts (written and spoken, etc.), including reading, science, penmanship, drawing, music, and physical culture, have all formed parts of the course of instruction, giving suitable variety to claim the child's interest and attention, and calling forth all of the activities of the child's nature. At the third year, geography should be introduced, although it has been formerly touched upon as drawing or form, with perhaps related place exercises. Although introduced as geography in the third year, it is still largely a matter of form, place, and physical representation, gaining its more distinctive character as the work progresses and the child's strength and power of comprehension increase. History should be introduced in the form of stories an...