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  title info:
    title: Education as a science
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Bain, Alexander
    name part: 1818-1903
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1897
    edition: Authorized ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxvii, 453 pages)
  abstract: "In the present work I have surveyed the Teaching Art, as far as possible, from a scientific point of view; which means, among other things, that the maxims of ordinary experience are tested and amended by bringing them under the best ascertained laws of the mind. I have devoted one long chapter to an account of the Intellect and the Emotions in their bearings on education. The remainder of the work is occupied with the several topics more specially connected with the subject. There are certain terms and phrases that play a leading part in the various discussions; and to each of these I have endeavoured at the outset to assign a precise meaning. They are--Memory, Judgment, Imagination, proceeding from the Known to the Unknown, Analysis and Synthesis, Object Lesson, Information and Training, doing One Thing Well. A separate consideration is also bestowed on Education Values, or an enquiry into the worth of the various subjects included in the usual routine of instruction; the largest amount of space being given to Science. Under the designation--Sequence of Subjects (Psychological and Logical), a number of important matters are brought forward, it is thought, in an advantageous way. These preparatory matters being disposed of, the main topic--the Methods of Teaching--is entered upon. After adverting to what concerns the first elements of Reading, I proceed to the delicate question of the commencement of Knowledge teaching. It is here that we are introduced to the Object Lesson, which, more than anything else, demands a careful handling; there being great apparent danger lest an admirable device should settle down into a plausible but vicious formality. The Mother Tongue has a place appropriated to itself. Everything that relates to it as an acquirement--Vocabulary, Grammar, the Higher Composition, and Literature--is minutely canvassed. A chapter is assigned to an estimate of the value of Latin and Greek at the present day. On the wide subject of Moral Education, the …
  note: by Alexander Bain.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Teaching
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Teaching
  classification: LB1025 .B16 1897
  classification: 370
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Education as a science
    name:
      name part: Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, D. Appleton, 1897
      edition: Authorized ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 32036024
    identifier: (OCoLC)1719439
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 081202
    record change date: 20260612153149.5
    record identifier: in00003520067
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng