Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — The Science of Teaching. [ARTICLE]

The Science of Teaching.

While there is evidence of a general improvement in the study of the science of teaehing, I mast fraukly state that some of the schools do not yet seem to have passed tbfct low stage in this department oi instruction where opinions are given for principles, and loose, popular lectures take the plaee of rigid, systematic inquiry into fundamentals. No one should undertake to teach i!)« science, of ‘teaching, who oannot devote his whole thought to it, who is not well acquainted with the systems of edoostion and tbeir history,who is not thoroughly versed in the philosophy of the human mind and man as a whole in all his relatione, and who has not made a special study of ebild growth from the oradke up wards;—Hon. J. P. Wickershsm. In youth the habit ts system, method, and industry, is as easily formed a» others; and the ben efts and enjoyments which molt from it, are more than the wealth and honors w torch, they always secure. —T. Trowbridge. • „