A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education. Gall James

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       On the Methods by which Nature may be imitated in the Pupil's Acquisition of Knowledge; with a Review of the Analogy between the Mental and Physical Appetites of the Young.

       CHAP. III.

       How Nature may be imitated in Communicating Knowledge to the Pupil, by the Reiteration of Ideas.

       CHAP. IV.

       On the Means by which Nature may be imitated in Exercising the Principle of Individuation.

       CHAP. V.

       On the Means by which Nature may be imitated in Applying the Principle of Grouping, or Association.

       CHAP. VI.

       On the Methods by which Nature may be imitated in Communicating Knowledge by Classification, or Analysis.

       CHAP. VII.

       On the Imitation of Nature in Teaching the Practical Use of Knowledge.

       CHAP. VIII.

       On the Imitation of Nature in Teaching the Use of Knowledge by means of the Animal or Common Sense.

       CHAP. IX.

       On the Imitation of Nature in Teaching the Practical Use of Knowledge by means of the Moral Sense, or Conscience.

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       On the Application of our Knowledge to the Common Affairs of Life.

       CHAP. XI.

       On the Imitation of Nature, in training her Pupils fluently to communicate their Knowledge.

       PART IV.

       ON THE SELECTION OF PROPER TRUTHS AND SUBJECTS TO BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES.

       CHAP. I.

       On the General Principles which ought to regulate our choice of Truths and Subjects to be taught to the Young.

       CHAP. II.

       On the particular Branches of Education required for Elementary Schools.

       CHAP III.

       On the Easiest Methods of Introducing these Principles, for the first time, into Schools already established.

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       NOTES

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PREFACE.

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      The Author of the following pages is a plain man, who has endeavoured to write a plain book, for the purpose of being popularly useful. The philosophical form which his enquiries have assumed, is the result rather of accidental circumstances than of free choice. The strong desire which he felt in his earlier years to benefit the Young, induced him to push forward in the paths which appeared to him most likely to lead to his object; and it was not till he had advanced far into the fields of philosophy, that he first began dimly to perceive the importance of the ground which he had unwittingly occupied. The truth is, that he had laboured many years in the Sabbath Schools with which he had connected himself, before he was aware that, in his combat with ignorance, he was wielding weapons that were comparatively new; and it was still longer, before he very clearly understood the principles of those Exercises which he found so successful. One investigation led to another; light shone out as he proceeded; and he now submits, with full confidence in the truth of his general principles and deductions, the results of more than thirty years' experience and reflection in the great cause of Education.

      He has only further to observe, that the term "Nature," which occurs so frequently, has been adopted as a convenient and popular mode of expression. None of his readers needs to be informed, that this is but another manner of designating "The God of Nature," whose laws, as established in the young mind, he has been endeavouring humbly, and perseveringly to imitate.

      Myrtle Bank, Trinity, Edinburgh, 8th May, 1840.

PRACTICAL ENQUIRY, &c.

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PART I.

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ON THE PRELIMINARY OBJECTS NECESSARY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION.

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