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A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
James, 1784?-1874 Gall
Teaching the blind to read drove James Gall to ask how anyone learns anything. The Edinburgh publisher, inventor of a triangular alphabet for blind readers, distills decades of experiment into a practical philosophy of education: how minds actually take in knowledge and how schools defeat their own purpose. Reform proposals included. Rethink the classroom from first principles.
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67 chapters
- 1THE PHILOSOPHY
- 2OF
- 3EDUCATION.
- 4INVENTOR OF THE TRIANGULAR ALPHABET FOR THE BLIND; AND AUTHOR OF THE "END AND ESSENCE OF SABBATH SCHOOL TEACHING," c.
- 5EDINBURGH: JAMES GALL SON, 24, NIDDRY STREET. LONDON: HOULSTON STONEMAN, 65, PATERNOSTER-ROW. GLASGOW; GEORGE GALLIE. BELFAST: WILLIAM M'COMB. MDCCCXL
- 6PREFACE.
- 7CONTENTS
- 8PRACTICAL ENQUIRY, c.
- 9PART I.
- 10ON THE PRELIMINARY OBJECTS NECESSARY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION.
- 11CHAP. I. On the Importance of establishing the Science of Education on a solid Foundation.
- 12CHAP. II. On the Cultivation of Education as a Science.
- 13CHAP. III. On the Improvement of Teaching as an Art.
- 14CHAP. IV. On the Establishment of Sound Principles in Education.
- 15PART II.
- 16ON THE GREAT DESIGN OF NATURE'S TEACHING, AND THE METHODS SHE EMPLOYS IN CARRYING IT ON.
- 17CHAP. I. A Comprehensive View of the several Educational Processes carried on by Nature.
- 18CHAP. II. On the Method employed by Nature for cultivating the Powers of the Mind.
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