The School Room Guide to Methods of Teaching and School Management (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The School Room Guide to Methods of Teaching and School Management For the fifth time an entirely new set of plates has been made for this volume. The advantage of such large sale as to make this possible is nowhere more manifest than in a book of methods. Whatever it may have been in the past, the teaching of to-day is progressive, and the methods of 1877 are not altogether the methods of 1894. Particularly in Drawing and in Penmanship has such advance been made that it seemed necessary to have those chapters entirely rewritten. Of the new chapters it need only be said that they have been prepared respectively by Mrs. Mary Dana Hicks of Boston; and by Charles E. Wells, author of the Movement Method of Penmanship. We have also substituted for the Geography of North America prepared by Mr. DeGraff an entirely new chapter, condensed from the admirable works of Prof. Meiklejohn, and in accord with the most approved modern method of teaching. Except in these three chapters, the changes are mainly of arrangement. The book was originally made up of the authors notes as an institute conductor, and hence contained many repetitions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.