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Title: College Teaching
Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College

Author: Paul Klapper

Release Date: August 4, 2009 [EBook #29604]

Language: English

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COLLEGE TEACHING

STUDIES IN
METHODS OF TEACHING IN
THE COLLEGE

Edited by

PAUL KLAPPER, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Education
The College of the City of New York

with an
Introduction by
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, LL.D.

President of Columbia University

Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York
WORLD BOOK COMPANY
1920

WORLD BOOK COMPANY
THE HOUSE OF APPLIED KNOWLEDGE
Established, 1905, by Caspar W. Hodgson

YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK
2126, PRAIRIE AVENUE, CHICAGO

A treasure of wisdom is stored in the colleges of the land. The
teachers are the custodians of knowledge that makes life free and
progressive. This book aims to make the college teacher effective in
handing down this heritage of knowledge, rich and vital, that will
develop in youth the power of right thinking and the courage of right
living. Thus _College Teaching_ carries out the ideal of service as
expressed in the motto of the World Book Company, "Books that Apply
the World's Knowledge to the World's Needs".

Copyright, 1920, by World Book Company
Copyright in Great Britain
_All rights reserved_

PREFACE

The student of general problems of education or of elementary
education finds an extensive literature of varying worth. In the last
decade our secondary schools have undergone radical reorganization and
have assumed new functions. A rich literature on every phase of the
high school is rapidly developing to keep pace with the needs and the
progress of secondary education. The literature on college education
in general and college pedagogy in particular is surprisingly