item: #1 of 14 id: 12291 author: Abbott, Jacob title: The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young date: None words: 115677 flesch: 69 summary: They transfer to the cause of piety itself the dislike which was first awakened by exceptionable means to promote it; and other teachers, seeing these evil effects, are deterred from attempting what they might easily have accomplished. These, or the most interesting of them, should be made known to other teachers. keywords: attention; boys; business; case; children; class; course; day; duty; effect; exercise; fact; general; good; hour; individual; influence; interest; manner; means; mind; new; number; order; plan; pupils; right; room; scholars; school; sir; study; subject; teacher; thing; time; way; wish; work; wrong cache: 12291.txt plain text: 12291.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 12769 author: Strayer, George D. (George Drayton) title: How to Teach date: None words: 92979 flesch: 64 summary: =8 | | | | =================================================================== Sum x ยท y +56 +56 r = ---------------------------- THE HILLEGAS SCALE FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION ====================================================== STEP No.|VALUE or SAMPLE|RANGE OF STEP |LENGTH OF STEP --------+---------------+--------------+-------------- 0. . . keywords: = =; = quality; = |; activity; appreciation; attention; children; class; conduct; development; differences; education; fact; good; grades =; group; habit; individual; means; memory; method; nature; need; play; point; power; problem; process; question; r =; response; results; school; situation; social; study; teacher; thinking; time; training; type; use; value; work; | -|; | =; | | cache: 12769.txt plain text: 12769.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 13049 author: Pearson, Francis B. (Francis Bail) title: Reveries of a Schoolmaster date: None words: 48131 flesch: 78 summary: In good time, if the boy is kept growing, he will have outgrown his stone-bruises, his chapped hands, his freckles, his warts, and his physical and spiritual awkwardness. He says those two will join the others, all in good time. keywords: book; boys; brer; brown; chapter; college; course; day; days; evening; experience; eyes; face; feeling; folks; girls; good; home; hours; life; look; man; matter; mind; mother; neighbor; people; place; potatoes; pupils; reading; right; school; schoolmaster; sort; subject; talk; teacher; things; thinking; time; truth; use; want; way; wonder; work; world; year cache: 13049.txt plain text: 13049.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 13398 author: Smith, William Hawley title: The Evolution of "Dodd" A pedagogical story giving his struggle for the survival of the fittest, tracing his chances, his changes, and how he came out date: None words: 47148 flesch: 82 summary: As Dodd's head dropped Mr. Bright turned his glance to the girl again, and said: If the angle at A-- Upon which she took up the demonstration where she had broken off, and finished it as though nothing had happened. Mr. Bright took a small piece of blank paper from his table, a rectangular slip about four inches long by two inches wide, cut expressly for the purpose for which he proceeded to use it, and went down to the desk where Dodd sat sulking and defiant. keywords: amos; boy; bright; case; children; class; day; dodd; face; fact; girl; good; hand; head; help; life; man; men; miss; nature; parson; people; place; pupils; room; school; stone; teacher; thing; time; way; weaver; word; work; years cache: 13398.txt plain text: 13398.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 14567 author: Pearson, Francis B. (Francis Bail) title: The Reconstructed School date: None words: 35483 flesch: 66 summary: No one, they argue, has ever determined what subjects will effectually generate the specific qualities self-control or reverence, no one has ever discovered what school studies will function in given spiritual qualities. To most people, including many teachers, arithmetic is but a habit of thinking. keywords: appreciation; arithmetic; boy; child; children; course; education; end; goal; good; hope; imagination; knowledge; life; man; means; men; people; power; present; process; pupils; qualities; quality; respect; responsibility; school; spirit; study; teacher; teaching; thinking; time; way; work; world; years cache: 14567.txt plain text: 14567.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 16987 author: Bagley, William C. (William Chandler) title: Craftsmanship in Teaching date: None words: 62035 flesch: 62 summary: I should approve all honest efforts of school men and school women toward this much-desired end. It is in the attitude of the public and of a certain proportion of school men toward elementary teaching and the elementary teacher that this destructive criticism finds its most pronounced expression. keywords: believe; child; children; day; education; efficiency; experience; fact; general; good; history; human; ideals; know; knowledge; life; little; man; matter; means; men; method; mind; new; point; present; principles; problem; process; pupils; results; school; school work; science; service; spirit; study; teacher; teaching; things; time; training; way; work; world; years cache: 16987.txt plain text: 16987.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 17588 author: Pearson, Francis B. (Francis Bail) title: The Vitalized School date: None words: 70989 flesch: 68 summary: Or, again, they might take some additional studies and so make great gains in mental achievements in their twelve years of school life. Many a child has deserted the school because the teacher made school life disagreeable. keywords: activities; agriculture; art; artist; body; books; boy; child; children; conception; country; course; day; democracy; education; experience; fact; freedom; good; great; history; home; human; humor; influence; interest; knowledge; language; life; living; man; means; men; methods; mind; order; patriotism; people; place; process; pupils; questions; recitation; right; school; school life; school work; self; society; spirit; study; subject; teacher; teaching; things; thinking; time; way; words; world cache: 17588.txt plain text: 17588.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 18698 author: Betts, George Herbert title: The Recitation date: None words: 21761 flesch: 67 summary: By actual count, many teachers have been found to repeat as many as 75% of the answers given in the recitation. Teachers are not always clear as to what they mean when they speak of the recitation. keywords: answer; child; class; interest; lesson; method; points; pupils; questions; recitation; school; study; subject; teacher; teaching; time; use; work cache: 18698.txt plain text: 18698.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 19659 author: McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander) title: The Elements of General Method, Based on the Principles of Herbart date: None words: 58541 flesch: 62 summary: Rousseau says: Study children, for be sure you do not understand them. The periods of child life are so similar to the epochs of history, that a child finds its _proper mental food_ in the study of the materials furnished by these epochs. keywords: aim; apperception; character; children; concentration; course; culture; education; epochs; experience; facts; general; geography; history; home; ideas; interest; knowledge; lessons; life; materials; men; mind; nature; new; objects; process; reading; school; school studies; science; series; studies; study; subject; teachers; things; thought; value; way; work; years cache: 19659.txt plain text: 19659.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 22251 author: Abbott, Jacob title: The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young date: None words: 114725 flesch: 71 summary: They transfer to the cause of piety itself, the dislike which was first awakened by exceptionable means to promote it; and other teachers, seeing these evil effects, are deterred from attempting what they might easily and pleasantly accomplish. These or the most interesting of them should be made known to other teachers. keywords: attention; boys; business; case; children; class; course; day; duty; exercise; fact; general; good; hour; individual; influence; interest; manner; means; mind; new; number; order; plan; pupils; right; room; scholars; school; sir; study; subject; teacher; thing; time; way; wish; work; writing; wrong cache: 22251.txt plain text: 22251.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 29604 author: Klapper, Paul title: College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College date: None words: 198103 flesch: 54 summary: College students are now drawn from families and homes of every conceivable type and kind. A careful reading of these papers is commended not only to the great army of college teachers and college students, but to that still greater army of those who, whether as alumni or as parents or as citizens, are deeply concerned with the preservation of the influence and character of the American college for its effect upon our national standards of thought and action. keywords: advanced; aim; aims; american college; art; attention; biology; business; chemistry; class; classes; college art; college course; college curriculum; college education; college mathematics; college students; college subject; college teaching; college work; colleges; courses; department; development; discussion; drawing; economics; education; elementary; engineering; engineering education; english; examination; facts; field; form; general; german; good; government; graduate; group; health; history; hours; human; hygiene; individual; institutions; instruction; interest; introductory; knowledge; laboratory; laboratory work; language; law; lecture; life; literature; material; mathematical; matter; means; method; mind; music; need; new; number; order; organization; pages; philosophy; physical; place; point; political; power; practice; present; principles; problems; professor; psychology; public; purpose; questions; reading; results; school; science; social; special; state; student; study; subject; taught; teacher; technical; theory; thought; time; training; universities; university; use; value; view; way; work; world; years; york; | | cache: 29604.txt plain text: 29604.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 30296 author: Sands, Nathaniel title: The Philosophy of Teaching The Teacher, The Pupil, The School date: None words: 15491 flesch: 58 summary: All these things should form the subject of school study and inquiry. What aspiring father, what Cornelia among mothers, select for their children the profession of a teacher as a field in which the talents and just ambition of such children may find scope? keywords: children; college; education; happiness; instruction; knowledge; latin; life; man; mind; nature; pupils; school; science; studies; study; teacher; teaching; time cache: 30296.txt plain text: 30296.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 31067 author: Hart, John S. (John Seely) title: In the School-Room: Chapters in the Philosophy of Education date: None words: 76161 flesch: 69 summary: A teacher who should shut himself up in his own school-room, giving to it every moment of his waking hours, would not be likely to benefit so largely his own pupils, as if he were to spend a portion of his time in communing with other teachers and observing other methods besides his own. A teacher even who should mingle freely with those of his own profession, and get all the benefit to be derived from observation of the views and methods of other teachers, but should stop there, would not yet obtain that broad, comprehensive view, even of his own calling, and of the duties of his own particular school-room that he might have if he would travel occasionally beyond the walk of books and pedagogy, and become acquainted with the views and methods of men in other spheres of life, with merchants, lawyers, and doctors, with farmers, mechanics, and artisans. keywords: attention; average; book; boy; child; children; class; course; day; education; fact; faculties; good; human; kind; knowledge; lesson; love; man; matter; meaning; means; memory; men; mind; miss; nature; order; place; point; power; pupils; room; scholars; school; study; subject; teacher; teaching; things; thought; time; use; words; work; years; young cache: 31067.txt plain text: 31067.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 6109 author: McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton) title: How to Study and Teaching How to Study date: None words: 85310 flesch: 67 summary: What better proof is needed of common laxness of attention? To remedy this evil among children teachers would do well to refer much less to the _time_ spent in study and much more to the _kind_ of attention given. _Collective examples of study_ The most extensive investigation of this subject has been made by Dr. Lida B. Earhart,[Footnote: _ keywords: ability; attention; books; children; class; common; example; experience; facts; footnote; general; good; ideas; judgment; knowledge; life; man; matter; memorizing; method; mind; nature; need; new; order; people; power; questions; reading; reason; school; self; student; study; subject; teacher; text; things; thinking; thought; time; use; value; way; words; work; year cache: 6109.txt plain text: 6109.txt