Show tend tf Way W y to Teach Any method which is productive of cf lasting nn and beneficial results is a good method Reasoning says Locke is ia the faculty of deducing Dg unknown wn truths troths from principles already familiar The principal difficulty with teachers today is tho same earce as Horace Mann lilann pointed pOinte out years ago We do too much telling and too little teaching Professor Pro Pm- fessor feasor Dewey says of present day methods methods methods meth meth- They succeed in crushing out oct nil all spontaneous interest in tho the subject itself it itself it- it self even if they do not all but bet destroy a II capacity for it It is this spontaneous interest that must be awakened and kept alive The teacher must be spontaneous enthusiastic enthusiastic very much ranch alive Sach Such a n teacher never Dever uses a textbook during daring a recitation recitation recitation tion is ready and apt in his illustrations illustrations pleasing in manner of presentation presenta presenta- tion ablo to present the tho same thing indifferent indifferent in indifferent different ways never resorts to sarcasm as ns a means of correction or to cover up his own lack of information gets his hi class W where here the tho mem members bels bel's are not afraid to try sits little during ering recitation possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly not at all an censures sparingly praises much But this kind of teaching teaching teach teach- ing lug takes time for careful preparation and much hard work is required Journal of Pedagogy |