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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Hanus lectured last night on the study of education. He said that the study of education holds much the same position that was held a few years ago by the study of English. It was formerly supposed that every child would learn to speak correctly and would become well acquainted with English literature by contact with English speaking people and by such reading as he did voluntarily. This was a mistaken idea. It is now changed and English holds a fair position in almost all high schools and an excellent position in all good colleges. Up to within...
...thought that this training would be all theoretical-that the only way for a man to learn the art of teaching was to practice it. But a man whose time is engaged in teaching a special subject is too much taken up with that to think about methods and general principles. Accordingly universities-are now beginning to take up the subject. Two years ago courses in pedagogy were first given here, and last year the faculty voted to allow them to count for a degree. They are intended for general students as well as for specialists, but of course...
Teachers should at first learn to appreciate the aim of their teachings. It is not only that their scholars may acquire information, but it is much more that their minds may be broadened and enabled to work independently, that their wills may be strengthened, and that their characters may be developed. The teacher's object is always to promote growth...
...possible for many people. The university is not to create an intellectual class, but is to intellectualize the whole country. The temptation is very great for college men of intellectual inclinations to be receptive and not expansive. Shut off for four years from the needs of the world, they learn to consult simply their own needs. The result is seen in men who so fiill themselves with knowledge as utterly to lose the power of initiative. Their knowledge is a great weight rather than a great power. The idea underlying Professor Hanus's work is that men should take time...
...said that it was impossible to learn the art of composition from books. It is only through the direction and guidance of competent architects that we can hope to acquire this subtle capacity which is one of the fundamental requirements of the beginner. Inspiration in composition is only to be obtained by the hardest kind of work, and it will come much oftener to the steady persevering worker than to the brilliant genius who waits...