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(I) It need scarcely be said that any book on education by Prof. Thorndike will be suggestive and helpful; yet it is not quite easy to realise the constituency for which his latest work is specially written. If this first book is meant for students in training for the teaching profession, it seems to contain at once too little and too much. The volume is a simple introduction to the whole theory of education. Rather less than one-seventh of the book concerns the elementary practical situations which usually come into the control of the beginner. Experience shows that practice, unless it is begun before there is some power of reflection, furnishes the best starting point for the future teacher, and a first book for the trainee should therefore concern itself primarily with bringing out the fundamental features of the practical situation. Chapters on the meaning and value of education, the aims and results of education and the like appear so remote from the problem of the moment that students are apt to be impatient of them. A background of class room experience would, however, give point and meaning to such discussions.
(1) Education. A First Book.
Prof. Edward L. Thorndike. Pp. ix+ 292. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 6s. net.
(2) L'Education Physique ou l'Entraînement Complet par la Méthode Naturelle. Exposé et Résultats.
Georges Hébert. Pp. iii + 85 + 8 plates. (Paris: Librairie Vuibert, 1912.)
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G., J. (1) Education A First Book (2) L'Education Physique ou l'Entraînement Complet par la Méthode Naturelle Exposé et R´sultats. Nature 90, 407 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090407a0
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