Interest and education : the doctrine of interest and its concrete application / by Charles De Garmo.

  • De Garmo, Charles, 1849-1934.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Interest and education : the doctrine of interest and its concrete application / by Charles De Garmo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    language must be made plain by familiar forms of speech. All the teacher’s resources of philology, grammar, and rhetoric are likely, sooner or later, to be needed in rendering language comprehensible to his pupils. The greatest need for exposition, however, is in the realm of reality, whether of thought or of things. Ideas, conceptions, judgments, laws, principles, relations, often lie beyond the pupil’s unaided power of comprehension. A political principle, for example, like that of local self-government can only be truly ap- prehended when on the one hand we see what its ultimate consequences are for the political well-being of the people, and on the other what evils its absence entails. In expositions of this kind that which is abstract must be made concrete by appeal to examples, experiences, descriptions, and the like. Complex ideas must be analyzed into simple ones, objects must be compared as to their similarities and their differences, events must be examined both from the standpoint of their causes and their consequences. Ancient history is illuminated by showing its reflection