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Title: Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education

Author: Ontario Ministry of Education

Release Date: May 25, 2006 [EBook #18451]

Language: English

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ONTARIO NORMAL SCHOOL MANUALS

SCIENCE OF EDUCATION

AUTHORIZED BY THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION

TORONTO THE RYERSON PRESS

COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1915, BY THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION FOR ONTARIO

Second Printing, 1919.
Third Printing, 1923.

CONTENTS

PART I

THE PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION

CHAPTER I PAGE

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF EDUCATION 1
Conditions of Growth and Development 2
Worth in Human Life 4
Factors in Social Efficiency 6

CHAPTER II

FORMS OF REACTION 9
Instinctive Reaction 9
Habitual Reaction 10
Conscious Reaction 11
Factors in process 12
Experience 13
Relative value of experiences 15
Influence of Conscious Reaction 17

CHAPTER III

PROCESS OF EDUCATION 19
Conscious Adjustment 19
Education as Adjustment 19
Education as Control of Adjustment 22
Requirements of the Instructor 24

CHAPTER IV

THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM 25
Purposes of Curriculum 25
Dangers in Use of Curriculum 28

CHAPTER V

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 34
The School 34
Other Educative Agents 35
The church 35
The hom