Excerpt from A Primer of Teaching Practice This little book is the outcome of many attempts to organize the preliminary professional work of Training College Students. It does not offer in any sense a theory of education, its purpose is much more modest, viz., to give a first survey of the variety of activities which enter into the complex work of class teaching. The different chapters are based upon an effort to treat these activities in isolation, in the belief that the student will best understand his business if he attacks them one by one. In this way he feels that he is making definite forward steps, and, as lessons grow more complex, he has a basis for their intelligent appreciation and criticism. Moreover, in thinking out his own lessons, he is in a position to determine his procedure with certain principles more or less clearly in mind. As actually worked out, the topics are always illustrated by demonstrations, followed by general discussion, in which the attention of the student is directed to the particular points raised. The book is not, of course, a substitute for the study of "special" method, where procedure is modified in accordance with the nature of the subject-matter: nor is it intended to supplant courses in psychology. It is rather a general preparation for both. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.