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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 27
Appendix—F
Appendix—F.
Candidates must be (1) Graduates, or (2) have passed the Higher Local Examination, or (3) have matriculated at the University of London, or (4) have passed the L.A. Examination.
The subjects of examination are—
| I. | —Theory of Education: (a) The scientific basis of the Art of Education, viz.:—Characteristics of childhood and youth; order of development and laws of growth and operation of mental faculties; natural order of the acquisition of knowledge; development of the will; formation of habits and of character; sympathy and its effects. (b) Elements of the Art of Education, viz.:—Training the senses, memory, imagination, and taste; the powers of judging and reasoning; training the desires and will; discipline and authority; emulation, its use and abuse, rewards and punishments. | ||||||||
| II. | —History of Education: (a) General knowledge of systems, work of eminent teachers, and theories of writers on education. (b) Detailed knowledge of special subjects selected yearly—those for 1883 and 1884 being Milton's Tractate on Education, the Life and Work of Pestalozzi, and the Life and Work of Froebel. | ||||||||
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—Practice of Education: (a) Method—Order and correlation of studies, oral teaching, exposition, text-books, note-books, questioning, examining, special methods for various subjects, (b) School Management—Structure, furniture, and fitting of school-rooms; books and apparatus; visible and tangible illustrations; classification, time-tables, registration, warming, ventilation, and hygiene, &c., &c. A special paper will also be set containing a small number of questions of an advanced character on each of the above three subjects. |
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| IV. | —The Syndicate will further award certificates of practical efficiency in teaching to candidates who have already obtained a certificate of theoretical efficiency, and have been engaged in school work for a year in some school or schools recognised for this purpose by the Syndicate. The bases of the certificate will be:
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A fee of £2 10s. shall be paid by each candidate. Application should be made to Mr. Oscar Browning, M.A., Kings College, Cambridge.