Chapter XVI
Reading edition
NEW METHODS OF TEACHING.
Generous Proposal of a Benevolent Lady—Her Labors among the Poor—Miss Andrew's Teaching—Pestalozzi's System—Old Systems too Mechanical and too much Memorizing—Effects in Loose Habits of Thinking—Inaccurate Observation—Children Found Incompetent for Practical Life—Object System begins with the Senses—First Learning of Colors and of Numbers—Sounds Taught before Names of Letters—Dr. Leigh's System—Mr. Caulkins's Views—Words to be Learned First, Letters Afterward—Spelling to be Learned After Reading—Quotation from Mr. Caulkins's Work—New Method of learning Geography—Geography Becomes a Natural Science—Natural History Taught by Objects—Lessons in Morality and Religion given in a Similar Manner—Weights, Measures, and Geometry thus Taught—Definition Learned through Objects—Spelling and Grammar in like Manner—Great Effort on part of the Teacher……………..pp. 181-193