Course of Study for the Public Schools of the District of Columbia: Together With the Rules Governing the Schools (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It will therefore be seen that, whereas the study of elemen~ tary science educates by training the child's perceptions and his. Comparing and concluding faculties, as no other study can do at this stage of his education, and at the same time enriches his mind with knowledge, its introduction at this time is chiefly to furnish the means of accurate and determinative training in the English language for the work is not done that the child may learn and recite facts, but it is done that he may see facts, and thus be led to use language for exact and correct. Expression.

This work, if properly done, is far-reaching in its educative effects, whether mind development or language training be its purpose for objects must not be studied in a heterogeneous way, but should be presented in groups whose parts are related. For instance, if a leaf is studied, several kinds of leaves must be studied in connection therewith. These, by a perception of' their differences, must be separated into groups, after which many leaves may be found by the child, each of which he, de ciding for himself, must place in the proper group. If an ani mal (as the squirrel) is studied, two or more animals belonging to the group of gnawing animals must be studied also. That rela tions may be seen, comparisons may be made, and conclusions. Drawn therefrom.

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