Common Sense

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Excerpt from Common Sense: In Education and Teaching, An Introduction to Practice There is first, the allowance to be made for differences M a of age. We do not teach, say, the history of wage and the Armada in the same way to pupils of ten mm years, fifteen years, and nineteen years of age, to the first it is more properly a panorama, to the second it begins to have political meaning and more definite personal interest, to the third it is a study of evidences and intrigues, part of a great European sys tem of politics. There are next to be considered the differences of status and antecedents, social and intellec tual. The pupil who comes from more refined home surroundings may safely be left to fill up gaps in know. Ledge which for the less-favoured child the teacher must himself fill up. The teacher of the true secondary school can usually count on his pupils' freer access to books, he can refer them, in their degree, to author ities, he can, with less scruple, make them do home lessons they need far less predigestion and spoon feeding. The misuse of the maxim m'lu'l per when is bad enough in the primary school. It is worse in the secondary. We ought to leave blanks purposely, so that the pupil may himself supply the omissions. We can take more for granted in the secondary than in the primary grade, for the secondary pupil has usually a larger vocabulary and all that this implies. 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.