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Louis Agassiz as a Teacher Illustrative Extracts on His Method of Instruction.

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By a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. Sometimes he himself speaks, sometimes distinguished pupils of his reveal in their own words the process by which they were led to nature through direct and independent observation. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Lane (auth)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2019.
Subjects:
Agassiz, Louis, > 1807-1873.
Biography: science, technology & medicine.
Educators.
History.
EDUCATION.
SCIENCE.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Biography: general
History of education
History of science
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  • II. AGASSIZ AT NEUCHÂTEL
  • III. AGASSIZ AT HARVARD
  • IV. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SHALER
  • V. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR VERRIL
  • VI. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR WILDER
  • VII. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SCUDDER
  • VIII. THE DEATH OF AGASSIZ-HIS PERSONALITY
  • IX. OBITER DICTA BY AGASSIZ
  • X. PASSAGES FOR COMPARISON WITH THE METHOD OF AGASSIZ