Principles of Teaching eBook

Adam S. Bennion
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 196 pages of information about Principles of Teaching.

Principles of Teaching eBook

Adam S. Bennion
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 196 pages of information about Principles of Teaching.

   1 pupil did 3 examples correctly
   2 pupils did 4 examples correctly
   1 pupil did 5 examples correctly
   5 pupils did 6 examples correctly
   2 pupils did 7 examples correctly
   4 pupils did 8 examples correctly
   6 pupils did 9 examples correctly
  14 pupils did 10 examples correctly
   8 pupils did 11 examples correctly
   7 pupils did 12 examples correctly
   8 pupils did 13 examples correctly
   5 pupils did 14 examples correctly
   5 pupils did 15 examples correctly
   6 pupils did 16 examples correctly
   1 pupil did 17 examples correctly
   5 pupils did 18 examples correctly
   1 pupil did 19 examples correctly
   2 pupils did 20 examples correctly

The rapidity of movement of ten-year-old girls, as measured by the number of crosses made in a fixed time: 

6 or  7  by       1 girl
8 or  9  by       0 girl
10 or 11  by       4 girls
12 or 13  by       3 girls
14 or 15  by      21 girls
16 or 17  by      29 girls
18 or 19  by      33 girls
20 or 21  by      13 girls
22 or 23  by      15 girls
24 or 25  by      11 girls
26 or 27  by       5 girls
28 or 29  by       2 girls
30 or 31  by       5 girls
32 or 33  by       3 girls
34 or 35  by       5 girls
36 or 37  by       0 girl
38 or 49  by       4 girls
40 or 41  by       1 girl

Two papers, A and B, written by members of the same grade and class in a test in spelling: 

A.            B.
greatful      gratful
elegant       eleagent
present       present
patience      paisionce
succeed       suckseed
severe        survere
accident      axadent
sometimes     sometimes
sensible      sensible
business      biusness
answer        anser
sweeping      sweping
properly      prooling
improvement   improvment
fatiguing     fegting
anxious       anxchus
appreciate    apresheating
assure        ashure
imagine       amagen
praise        prasy

In a test in spelling wherein fifty common words were dictated to a class of twenty-eight pupils, the following results were obtained: 

   2 spelled correctly all 50
   3 spelled correctly between 45 and 48
   5 spelled correctly between 40 and 45
  11 spelled correctly between 30 and 40
   6 spelled correctly between 20 and 30
   1 spelled correctly between 15 and 20

And now the question—­what has all this to do with the teaching of religion?  Just this:  the differences among men as found in fields already referred to, are found also in matters of religion.  For one man it is easy to believe in visions and all other heavenly manifestations; for another it is next to impossible.  To one man the resurrection is the one great reality; to another it is merely a matter of conjecture.  One man feels certain that his prayers are heard and answered; another feels equally certain that they cannot be.  One man is emotionally spiritual; another is coldly hard-headed and matter-of-fact.  The point is not a question which man is right—­it is rather that we ought not to attempt to reach each man in exactly the same way, nor should we expect each one to measure up to the standards of the others.

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