An edition of The art of teaching
(1950)
The art of teaching
[1st ed.]
by Gilbert Highet
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Describes the how of teaching by examining teachers and students, the teacher's methods, and great teachers through history.
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Table of Contents
I.
Introduction
Page 3-7
Teaching constantly changes
Page 3
It covers many different subjects in school and college
Page 3
It is widly practiced by ordinary people in daily life
Page 4
It is difficult and important
Page 6
This book is an outline of its methods, not of its subjects
Page 7
II.
The Teacher
Page 8-73
His rewards and his difficulties
Page 8
The qualities of a good teacher
Page 12-64
knowing the subject
Page 12
liking the subject
Page 19
liking the pupils
Page 27
bad schools and bad classes
Page 30
knowing the pupils
Page 36
youngsters
Page 37
individuals and types
Page 41
eccentrics
Page 45
knowing other things
Page 54
humor
Page 59
The abilities of a good teacher
Page 64-73
memory
Page 64
will power
Page 66
kindness
Page 71
III.
The Teacher's Methods
Page 74-173
Preparation
Page 74-97
planning
Page 74
renewal of material
Page 90
Communication
Page 97-165
the three methods
Page 97
lecturing
Page 100-21
delivery
Page 100
notes and their use
Page 109
punctuation
Page 115
tutoring
Page 121-31
invention and purpose
Page 121
difficulty
Page 122
value
Page 123
methods described
Page 125
recitation
Page 131-65
examinations
Page 133
questions and discussion
Page 141
competition
Page 140
the uses of tradition
Page 149
punishment
Page 160
Fixing the impression
Page 165-73
review
Page 167
questions
Page 168
statement of outstanding problems
Page 170
IV.
Great Teachers and Their Pupils
Page 174-263
The sophists
Page 175
Socrates
Page 176
Plato
Page 181
Aristotle and Alexander
Page 184
Jesus
Page 190
Good teachers and bad pupils
Page 199
good schools and bad products
Page 204
good fathers and bad sons
Page 205
the explanation and some remedies
Page 208
Renaissance teachers
Page 213
The Jesuit teachers
Page 220
Teachers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Page 224
Fathers of great men
Page 250
professional men
Page 253
amateurs
Page 257
V.
Teaching in Everyday Life
Page 264-82
Fathers and mothers
Page 264
Husbands and wives
Page 266
Executives
Page 267
Doctors
Page 267
Psychiatrists
Page 268
Clergymen and priests
Page 269
Advertisers, publicists, propagandists
Page 270
Communist education of prisoners
Page 273
Authors and artists
Page 276
Principles of everyday teaching
Page 280
Notes
Page 283
Index
Page 291
Edition Notes
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 283-291)
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