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Excerpt from Elementary Education: Its Problems and Processes This book is a result of experience with, and study of, various aspects of elementary education. Out of this experience and study has grown the conclusion that efficiency in teaching is 1 the outcome of persistent effort based on progressive insight into the nature of the processes involved. Except as regards the purely mechanical aspects of schoolroom management, mere experience in teaching is fruitless. One element in the growth of the teacher is an understanding of the aim and meaning of education as a concrete social process. Such an understanding paves the way for an intelligent and profitable study of the materials and method of education. (Chapters II.-V.) A second element in the growth of the teacher is a realization of the fact that in the concrete processes of discipline and of the recitation, if anywhere, the aim of education is to be progressively realized. This insight makes profitable a study of discipline and of the recitation in their relations to the aim, materials, and method of education. The insight thus gained also enables the teacher to appreciate the important relations which exist between thought and expression. (Chapters VI.-X.) A third element of growth is a comprehension of the nature of the successive stages of the child's mental development, the demands made upon the materials of education and upon the method of teaching by these stages, and the relation of interest and attention to every aspect of elementary education. (Chapters XI.-XIII. 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.