Art of Teaching

Name: Art of Teaching
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ISBN: 9780679723141

ISBN-10: 0679723145

ISBN-13: 9780679723141

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gilbert Highet

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Description:

The noted classicist presents his educational methodology, within the context of history, from the Sophists to modern teaching.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/13/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




Introduction


Teaching constantly changes


It covers many different subjects in school and college


It is widely practiced by ordinary people in daily life


It is difficult and important


This book is an outline of its methods, not of its subjects



The Teacher


His rewards and his difficulties


The qualities of a good teacher


Knowing the subject


Liking the subject


Liking the pupils


Bad schools and bad classes


Knowing the pupils


Youngsters


Individuals and types


Eccentrics


Knowing other things


Humor


The abilities of a good teacher


Memory


Will-power


Kindness



The Teacher's Methods


Preparation


Planning


Renewal of material


Communication


The three methods


Lecturing


Delivery


Notes and their use


Punctuation


Tutoring


Invention and purpose


Difficulty


Value


Methods described


Recitation


Examinations


Questions and discussion


Competition


The uses of tradition


Punishment


Fixing the impression


Review


Questions


Statement of outstanding problems



Great Teachers and Their Pupils


The sophists


Socrates


Plato


Aristotle and Alexander


Jesus


Good teachers and bad pupils


Good schools and bad products


Good fathers and bad sons


An explanation and some remedies


Renaissance teachers


The Jesuit teachers


Teachers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries


Fathers of great men


Professional men


Amateurs



Teaching in Everyday Life


Fathers and mothers


Husbands and wives


Executives


Doctors


Psychiatrists


Clergymen and priests


Advertisers, publicists, propagandists


Communist education of prisoners


Authors and artists


Principles of everyday teaching


Notes


Index