Talks on Pedagogics (1894) - Francis W. Parker - Bog

An outline of the theory of concentration. The discussion of the doctrine of concentration presented in this book is the outcome of work done in the Cook County Normal School. Contents: the child; central subjects of study; form as a mode of judgment; number and its relation to the central subjects; what can be done with numbers; attention; observation; language and the hearing language; reading and its relations to the central subjects; modes of expression; unity of expressive acts; acquisition of the forms of thought expression; speech and writing; school government and moral training; summary of the doctrine of concentration; democracy and education.