Principles and Processes of Education

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The author's aim in this book has been to state in simple and compact form some of the fundamental principles of education and to suggest how these may be applied in the processes of teaching in our public schools.

The book is not a treatise on School Management. To have undertaken a discussion of the principles of school administration would have extended the volume beyond its contemplated size. There are many excellent treatises on this phase of school work that are available to the teacher.

Neither has there been an attempt to particularize concerning the methods of teaching specific subjects, but it is hoped that the careful reader will find throughout the work a discussion of the principles upon which the general processes of the teaching of all subjects are based.

The author is aware that the book is but a meager contribution to the volume of extant pedagogical literature. Throughout the work he has endeavored to stress principles instead of details, and to make helpful suggestions instead of dogmatical statements. He believes with Emerson, that "the best part of a book is not what it contains, but what it suggests."

The author's obligations in the preparation of the work are heavy.

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