Education by Doing

Excerpt from Education by Doing: Or Occupations and Busy Work, for Primary Classes In observing the results achieved by the Kindergarten, educators have felt that Fr bel's great discovery of education by occupations must have something for the public school - that a further application of "the putting of experience and action in the place of books and abstract thinking," could be made beyond the fifth or sixth year of the child's life. This book is an outgrowth of this idea, conceived in the spirit of the New Education. It will be widely welcomed, we believe, as it gives concrete methods of work - the very aids primary teachers are in search of. There has been a wide discussion of the subject of education, and there exists no little confusion in the mind of many a teacher as to how he should improve upon methods that have been condemned. There is a general desire and demand for better methods. 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."