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Do Readers Read?   Those who are interested in the proper use of our libraries are asking continually, “What do readers read?” and the tables of class-percentages in the annual reports of those institutions show that librarians are at least making an attempt to satisfy these queries. But a question that is still more fundamental and quite as vital is: Do readers read at all? This is not a paradox,... more...

Dieses Buch ist kein Reiseführer im klassischen Sinn und kein Auswanderungsratgeber. Es beschreibt Kambodscha aus der Perspektive eines Menschen, der viele Jahre hier gelebt hat – nicht als Besucher, sondern im Alltag. Es geht um das Leben im Land, um Gewöhnung und Ernüchterung, um Arbeit, Gesundheit, Familie, Armut, Veränderung und die Frage, wann ein Ort trägt – und wann nicht mehr. Die... more...

CHAPTER I. There was joy in the Weaver household when the child was born, and when it had been duly announced that it was a boy. The event was the first of the kind in this particular branch of the Weaver family, and, as is always the case, there was such rejoicing as does not come with the recurrence of like episodes. A man hardly feels sure of his manhood till the magic word father is put in the... more...

Words and terms have, to different minds, various significations; and we often find definitions changing in the progress of events. Bailey says learning is "skill in languages or sciences." To this, Walker adds what he calls "literature," and "skill in anything, good or bad." Dr. Webster enlarges the meaning of the word still more, and says, "Learning is the knowledge of... more...

PREFACE During 1910, 1911, and 1912, as a part of a general plan to write a book on education, I reread a great deal of the classical educational literature, and carefully perused most of the current material in magazine and book form. An interest aroused by undergraduate and graduate work in the department of pedagogy had been whetted by the revolutionary activity in every field of educational... more...

INTRODUCTION. § 1. The science of Pedagogics cannot be derived from a simple principle with such exactness as Logic and Ethics. It is rather a mixed science which has its presuppositions in many others. In this respect it resembles Medicine, with which it has this also in common, that it must make a distinction between a sound and an unhealthy system of education, and must devise means to prevent or... more...

Dieses Buch beschreibt den Alltag des Online-Unterrichts jenseits von Technik, Plattformen und Methoden. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Haltung, Verantwortung und die Realität von Unterricht über Distanz. Der Autor schildert typische Situationen aus seiner Praxis mit Lernenden aus aller Welt und zeigt, was Online-Unterricht leisten kann – und was nicht. Ein sachlicher Blick auf moderne Bildungsrealität ohne... more...

INTRODUCTION Society as a whole knows little of the deaf, or the so-called deaf and dumb. They do not form a large part of the population, and many people seldom come in contact with them. Their affliction to a great extent removes them from the usual avenues of intercourse with men and debars them from many of the social activities of life, all tending to make the deaf more or less a class apart in... more...

Motivation gilt häufig als Schlüssel zum Lernerfolg. Dieses Buch hinterfragt diese Annahme und zeigt, warum Motivation ohne Struktur, Orientierung und realistische Einschätzung oft wirkungslos bleibt. Der Text richtet sich an Lernende und Lehrkräfte, die Lernen nicht emotional, sondern funktional verstehen wollen.

Who is sufficient for these things? is a question which any one may well ask when sitting down to the preparation of a treatise on popular education. The author of this work would have shrunk from the undertaking, but from deference to the judgment of the honorable body that unanimously invited its preparation. He has also been encouraged not a little by many kind friends, one of whom, distinguished... more...