The evolution of educational theory / by John Adams.

  • John Adams
Date:
1912
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Credit: The evolution of educational theory / by John Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By PROFESSOR JOHN ADAMS. Exposition and Illustration in Teaching. Globe 8vo. ^s. Educational Times.—A new book by Prof. Adams is a thing to arouse pleasant anticipations in the minds of a host of readers in two continents; and those anticipations will not suffer the least disappointment in respect of the work under review. Clear exposition, a true catholicity of interest, an ever-ready humour, sound learning lightly borne, we have learned to expect from Prof. Adams as matter of course. This book has all these fine qualities, and, moreover, throughout its pages the reader is kept continuously in touch with the actualities of the class- room. . . . We cordially thank Prof. Adams for a brilliant book, which is very pleasant to read and most profitable to perpend, mark, and digest.” Journal of Education.—“There is hardly a page that does not reveal Prof. Adams’s originality. Like Socrates, he brings philosophy from the clouds, pedagogics from the study to the class-room, tells of the howlers that his pupils and students have made, and, what is more, with true humour offers himself up as his own whipping boy.” School World.—“The many readers of Prof. Adams’s well-known book on Herbartian psychology will rejoice to hear that he has found time to write at greater length upon the technique of teaching. . . . Prof. Adams has much to say that is at once interesting and stimulating. He has not only watched teachers, he has been a teacher himself, and the keen-sighted schoolmaster is everywhere to the fore. . . . The chapters on illustration show the author in his happiest vein. The subject lends itself to light and, at the same time, severely critical treatment. Practical teachers of every grade will find much that will throw new light upon their work.” Guardian.—“This book will be useful not merely to the practical teacher who is trying to acquire greater skill in putting a subject before his audience, but also to the psychologist who is seeking to increase his knowledge of the working of the mind. Professor Adams has unusual insight into these matters, and he speaks from the mature knowledge which conies only by long experience. Moreover, he writes in a clear, fluent style, which makes the reader’s task easy and pleasant.” British Weekly.—“ Professor Adams has a bright, fresh, keen mind ; he states his points with great precision ; and he helps the reader generously with examples and citations. He is a psychologist of the newer school, and brings his knowledge and convictions to bear on the practical work of teaching. His volume is thus, in a sense, technical, but the ordinary reader who has any intellectual curiosity will read it with delight from end to end.”
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