In the School-Room: Chapters in the Philosophy of Education
In the School-Room: Chapters in the Philosophy of Education
In the School-Room: Chapters in the Philosophy of Education, written by John S. Hart in the late 19th century, explores effective teaching methods and the philosophy underpinning education. Hart emphasizes teaching as a cooperative process, advocating for active student engagement rather than passive information delivery. He critiques traditional teaching metaphors and highlights the importance of fostering students' inherent learning capacities through questioning and memory. This work is notable for its insights into educational practices and its influence on modern teaching philosophies.
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“The person who has learned to express a thought with entire exactness and idiomatic propriety in two languages; or where, from the want of analogy between the two languages, he finds this impracticable, to perceive the exact shade of difference between the two expressions; who can trace historically and logically the present meaning of a word from its original starting-point in reason and fact, and mark intelligently its gradual departures and their causes; who can perceive the exact difference between words and phrases nearly synonymous, and who can express that difference in terms clear and intelligible to others,”
— John S. Hart
