Education Books

CHILDREN AND THEIR BOOKS The most vital educational problem will always be how to make the best use of the child's earlier years, not only for the reason that in them many receive their entire school training, but also because, while the power of the child to learn increases with age, his susceptibility to formative influences diminishes, and so rapid is the working of this law that President... more...

Der Deutsche aus Kampot – Warum guter Unterricht oft unbequem ist ist kein klassisches Sprachlern- oder Motivationsbuch. Es richtet sich an erwachsene Deutschlernende und Lehrkräfte, die jenseits von Durchhalteparolen verstehen wollen, warum Lernen trotz Einsatz, Fleiß und guter Absichten häufig nicht zum gewünschten Ergebnis führt. Der Autor analysiert typische Bruchstellen im... 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...

THE CHIEF AIM OF EDUCATION. What is the central purpose of education? If we include under this term all the things commonly assigned to it, its many phases as represented by the great variety of teachers and pupils, the many branches of knowledge and the various and even conflicting methods in bringing up children, it is difficult to find a definition sufficiently broad and definite to compass its... 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...

FORM IA.Selections from The Ontario Readers B.Supplementary Reading and Memorization: Selection may be made from the following: I.To be Read to Pupils: 1.Nursery Rhymes: Sing a Song of Sixpence; I Saw a Ship a-Sailing; Who Killed Cock Robin; Simple Simon; Mary's Lamb, etc. ConsultVerse and Prose for Beginners in Reading;Riverside Literature Series, No. 59, 15 cents. 2.Fairy Stories: Briar Rose,... more...

I To what a great extent men are ruled by pure hazard, and how little reason itself enters into the question, is sufficiently shown by observing how few people have any real capacity for their professions and callings, and how many square pegs there are in round holes: happy and well chosen instances are quite exceptional, like happy marriages, and even these latter are not brought about by reason. A... more...

This collection of scattered thoughts and observations has little order or continuity; it was begun to give pleasure to a good mother who thinks for herself. My first idea was to write a tract a few pages long, but I was carried away by my subject, and before I knew what I was doing my tract had become a kind of book, too large indeed for the matter contained in it, but too small for the subject of... more...