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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50

Second Year

Second Year.

First Semester.

Review of School Economy, Lectures on the School Law, Methods of [unclear: Instructions] in Special Subjects, Primary Instruction, Teaching the Alphabet, Spelling and [unclear: Pronunciation.] The Word Method, The Phonetic System, Early Instruction in [unclear: Numbers,] Illustration of Numerical Operations, the Grube Method. Object [unclear: Lessons] their Value and Method. The Kindergarten, its Theory and Practice. Methods [unclear: of] Teaching to various classes, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Methods in [unclear: English] Grammar (practical and scientific) and in United States History. Methods [unclear: had] Geography, with Beginners, with advanced students, Map Drawing, [unclear: Penmanship]

Mental and Moral Philosophy taught in a course of Lectures by the President [unclear: of] the University.

Exhaustive notes will be required on all topics discussed in the presence of [unclear: the] class.

A Thesis on some assigned topic will be prepared by each student, and [unclear: will be] due before the Christmas Holidays.

One Teaching Exercise will be required of each student in the course of [unclear: the] Semester. Students will be ready to give their exercises before the class by the [unclear: fir] Tuesday in November.

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Second Semester.

Education as a Science * Nature of Education, Its Form, Work and Play, Authority and Obedience, Correction of Moral Obliquity, Office of Punishment (in Civil Society, in Education) kinds and degrees, Limits of Education: Subjective, Objective, Absolute. Special Elements of Education: Physical, Intellectual, Practical, etc. Studies and Reading Matter suited to the mind in its various stages of development. Method of presentation of knowledge as determined by the stages of mental growth: Illustrative Method, Method of Demonstration, etc. Act of Learning: Mechanical Element, Dynamic Element, etc. How Man is Taught: By Experience of Life, Through Printed Page, By School Instruction, Ethical and Social Culture, State Education, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Colleges and Universities, Technical Schools.

History of Education—Particular Systems and standpoints illustrated. Education in China, India, Thibet, Persia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome. Education among Northern Barbarians, among the Jews, Education in Middle Ages as affected by Feudal System, by Chivalry, by the Crusades, by the Free Cities, Modern Ideal in Education.

Individuals who have influenced Educational Thought: Beacon, Comenius, Locke, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Dr. Arnold, Horace Mann, etc., etc.

National systems of education (modern) Russia, Germany, England, France, Switzerland, America, etc.

Special study of American system, in its relation to State and Federal Government. Necessity for supervision. Duties and qualifications of supervisors.

Notes will be required on all special topics and discussions, where not treated at length in the text book in use.

One teaching exercise will be required of each student. Students must be ready to give their exercises by the first Tuesday in April.

During this semester the theses required for graduation will be prepared. All such theses will be due on the first Tuesday in May; they must be on some educational topic and of such length as to occupy about fifteen minutes in their public reading.

* The general arrangement of topics is essentially that of Rosenkranz, whose work is made the basis of instruction.