 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pagina’s
...understand everything that it is designed to teach him. If he cannot understand a thing this yc«r, it was not designed by his Creator that he should...his pupils understand it. This is the first step. need not say how peculiarly the remark applies to the young. But lastly, and above all, let me insist... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1831 - 416 pagina’s
...me common to all teaching, and which are in their nature calculated to produce the results to Avhich I have referred. 1. Let a pupil understand everything...has not forgotten far more than he at present knows ? What is understood to-day, may with pleasure be reviewed to-morrow. If it be frequently reviewed,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1833 - 388 pagina’s
...astonishing to observe how easily abstruse subjects may be brought within the grasp of the faculties even of children. Let a teacher, then, first understand...wasted. Who of us has not forgotten far more than all which he at present knows ? What is understood to-day, may with pleasure be reviewed to-morrow.... | |
 | 1836 - 432 pagina’s
...allow me to suggest here one or two principles which seem to me common to all teaching, and which are in their nature calculated to produce the results...his pupils understand it. This is the first step. i 2. I would recommend the frequent repetition of whatever has been acquired. For want of this, an... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pagina’s
...a skilful teacher. It is his business to make a pupil, if possible, understand. Very few things arc incapable of being understood, if they be reduced...has not forgotten far more than he at present knows ? What is understood to-day, may with pleasure be reviewed to-morrow. If it be frequently reviewed,... | |
 | John Jones (of Harewood.) - 1856 - 158 pagina’s
...brought within the grasp of even the faculties of children. Let the teacher first understand the subject, let him know that he understands it, let him reduce it to its simplest elements, and then let him see that his pupils understand it." It is related of Ferguson,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 pagina’s
...astonishing to observe how easily abstruse subjects may be brought within the grasp of even the facul. tics of children. Let a teacher, then, first understand...has not forgotten far more than he at present knows? What is understood to-day, may with pleasure be reviewed to-morrow. If it be frequently reviewed, it... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 pagina’s
...children. Let a teacher, then, first understand a subject himself. Let him know that he understands it. Lot him reduce it to • its natural divisions and its...has not forgotten far more than he at present knows? What is understood to-day, may with pleasure be reviewed to-morrow. If it be frequently reviewed, it... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1863 - 272 pagina’s
...' intellec' of dev Ti will be n iee spoV th« "."/ • y '>•:'", .' ... f'f „* ' ' . amet* - ** patience it is astonishing to observe how easily abstruse...let him see that his pupils understand it. This is tin: first step. 2. I would recommend the frequent repetition of whatever has been acquired. For want... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 902 pagina’s
...grasp of even the facul. ties of children. Let a teacher, then, first understand a subject himsel£ .Let him know that he understands it. Let him reduce...divisions and its simplest elements. And then, let bim see that his pupils understand it. This is the first step. 2. I would recommend the frequent repetition... | |
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Very few things are incapable of being understood, if they be reduced to their ultimate elements. Hence the reason why the power of accurate and natural analysis is so invaluable to a teacher. By simplification and patience, it is astonishing to observe... 