Education as a Science

Alexander Bain

D. Appleton, 1879 - Education - 453 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 1
• Logic a suitable accompaniment to the scientific course: 3
• Precepts may be culled from different sciences: 7
• The Prussian ideaharmonious development 123456 77 a: 8
• THE RETENTIVE FACULTY: 20
• CONCENTRATION Influence of the Will: 30
• SIMILARITY OR AGREEMENT: 36
• CONSTRUCTIVENESS: 40
• Activity and pleasure: 57
• Best mode of bringing sociability to the aid of study: 70
• Actual and ideal powera firstclass motive: 77
• The Emotions of Activity: 92
• Fine art influential as enjoyment: 96
• Nature of authority The school compared with the family: 102
• One man against a multitude is in the post of danger: 108
• The Discipline of Consequences: 118
• JUDGMENT AND ITS CULTIVATION: 122
• PROCEEDING FROM THE KNOWN TO THE UNKNOWN: 128
• Preparatory object lessons: 132
• ONE THING WELL: 142
• GEOGRAPHY: 146
• Best guides to ascertaining facts by observation and experiment: 148
• The Sciences of Classification: 158
• Bearings on fine arta mixed influence: 161
• General training of the bodily organs: 168
• The educator works on a growing brain: 176
• CHAPTER VII: 190
• Taking advantage of the flash of agreement: 196
• The mixing of notions of different degrees of advancement: 203
• Laws of the constructive faculty: 231
• Speaking: 232
• Reading: 238
• THE OBJECT LESSON: 246
• Examples from minerals and plants: 253
• Consists of empirical statements: 262
• Inadequacy of the chance impressions of the child: 264
• Arts of communication generally and of the abstract idea in par: 287
• The Higher Mathematics: 295
• Uniting word to word by pure verbal adhesiveness: 314
• The names of known things seized willingly: 323
• Varying of sentence forms: 337
• Things necessary to be understood first: 344
• THE HIGHER COMPOSITION: 350
• CHAPTER X: 359
• The art treasures of Greek and Roman literature inaccessible: 365
• PAGE: 373
• Classics as a preparation for the mother tongue: 374
• I The cost: 380
• Evil of pandering to authority: 386
• ENGLISH COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE: 392
• CHAPTER XII: 398
• Importance to this end of a good classification of the virtues: 404
• Appeals to the humane sentiment: 415
• As taught on its own account partly intellectual but still more: 422
• The class too wide to be discussed as a whole: 431
• APPENDIX: 439
• PASSING EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS: 445

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Education as a Science; Volume 25 of International scientific series
• Author: Alexander Bain
• Edition: 4
• Publisher: D. Appleton, 1879
• ISBN: 0598019685, 9780598019684
• Length: 453 pages
• Subjects: Education / General