The Principles of Teaching Author:Edward Lee Thorndike Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Anyone of good sense can farm fairly well without science, and anyone of good sense can teach fairly well without knowing and applying psychology. Still, as the ... more »farmer with the knowledge of the applications of botany and chemistry to farming is, other things being equal, more successful than the farmer without it, so the teacher will, other things being equal, be the more successful who can apply psychology, the science of human nature, to the problems of the school. § 3. Exercises 1. In teaching which of the following subjects would you depend most upon responses of knowledge? Upon responses of feeling? Upon responses of action?—Literature, Manual Training, Latin. 2. Rank the following subjects in order according to the importance in them of responses of analysis: Music, History, Grammar. 3. Rank them according to the importance of responses of feeling. 4. Name two school studies which specially seek responses of observation. 5. Name two which specially seek responses of bodily skill. 6. Name two which specially seek responses of inference. 7. What sort of response is implied in each of the following? a. Learning the meanings of the numbers from one to seven. b. Learning to dance. c. " to love one's enemies. d. " the definition of a verb. e. Learning the sounds of the letters. f. " to obey a teacher. g. " the principal parts of a verb, h. " to study in a noisy room. i. " to be good-natured, though provoked. 8. To teach some of the school subjects, one must call forth responses of all four kinds, of knowledge, attitude, feeling and action. Show that this statement is true of geography. 9. Name some stimuli besides words and books which are essential in teaching geography. 10. In teaching morality. 11. In promoting the en...« less