Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, London 1884

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: special technical knowledge; but that just as surely as a liberal general education requires to be supplemented by special training in order to produce capable doctors, lawyers, and engineers, so a practical acquaintance with the Science and Art of Teaching is necessary for the Schoolmaster; and that being...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: special technical knowledge; but that just as surely as a liberal general education requires to be supplemented by special training in order to produce capable doctors, lawyers, and engineers, so a practical acquaintance with the Science and Art of Teaching is necessary for the Schoolmaster; and that being acknowledged, let us do our best to train our Teachers as completely as we can. ON THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. By Miss S. A. Miller, Principal of the Diocesan Training College at Oxford. A PROFESSED trainer of teachers ought to have something useful to say on such work, and I will endeavour not to disappoint the reasonable expectations of those whom I have the honour of addressing. But all who know and care about training will be prepared to own, with me, that the sum of our knowledge is small enough, looking to the more practical part of the work, and my immediate aim will therefore be the suggesting of such queries as may draw forth the helpful thoughts of others, rather than the putting out of any opinions of my own. To begin with, are we really agreed upon any definition of Education as a general aim ? and, if so, what .is- our common standing-ground ? I ask these questions very seriously, because it appears to me that we (in England, at least) do not understand one another as regards even fundamental principles, and that our loss is all the greater in that we take both soundness and agreement for granted ?non-existent all the time. If we do agree upon what is true and right, what, I ask, is our common and safe foundation ? In taking the Training of Teachers for special consideration, our field of inquiry can hardly be said to be narrowed, for it involves continual reference to thesubject of Education, as a whole, while introducing us ...