Wickersham, Methods of Instruction (1865)

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INTRODUCTION	25
CONDITIONING PRINCIPLES	34
Human beings have been created with different tastes	39
In acquiring knowledge the mind first distinguishes	45
The human intellect grows only by its own inherent	51
No Godconstituted difference of mental constitution	57
The first form of instruction must be qualitative next	64
arts are still possible and methods of instruction	70

Arrangement and Style of Discourse	262
Higher Composition a	270
Methods of teaching Latin and Greek	280
Instruction in Living Foreign Languages	289
The Formal Sciences in General	295
Mathematics 808	303
Arithmetic t	312
Exercises in the Solution of practical Examples	321

What we can know is everywhere bounded by what	76
BUILDING THE FOUNDATION	79
The Genesis of Knowledge	88
The Order of Study	109
CHAPTER I	123
Children should be furnished occasions for applying	135
Formal Instruction in the Elements of Knowledge	140
CHAPTER II	161
The Word Method	175
Exercise in Spelling	200
Reading	208
Learning to Understand our MotherTongue	234
The meaning of words may be learned by scientific defi	244
Grammar as a Science	252

GlOMETKY	331
Methods of Teaching Logic	338
The Empirical Sciences in General	346
Geography	367
Lessons on the Explanations of common Geographical	376
The Nature of the Rational Scienoei	389
Mind to accept Revealed Truth	398
The Methods of Teaching the Rational Sciences	406
CHAPTER VI	414
The Philosophy of History	426
Writing	451
Drawing	459
Vocal Music	468
The Arts in General	480