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Title: In the School-Room
Chapters in the Philosophy of Education

Author: John S. Hart

Release Date: January 25, 2010 [EBook #31067]

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IN THE SCHOOL-ROOM.

CHAPTERS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION.

JOHN S. HART, LL. D.,

PRINCIPAL OF THE NEW JERSEY STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

1868.

PHILADELPHIA:
ELDREDGE & BROTHER,
17 and 19 South Sixth Street.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
ELDREDGE & BROTHER,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

J. FAGAN & SON
STEREOTYPE FOUNDERS,
PHILADELPHIA.

PRINTED BY SHERMAN & CO.

TO THE Teachers of the United States, AND ESPECIALLY TO THE ALUMNI OF
THE PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL, AND OF THE New Jersey State Normal School
THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

The views contained in this volume are the result of a prolonged and
somewhat varied professional experience. This experience includes the
training of more than five thousand young men and of nearly one thousand
young women, a large portion of them for the office of teachers; and it
has been gained in College, in Boarding School, in a city High School,
and in a State Normal School. In all this prolonged and varied
experience, I have constantly put myself in the attitude of a learner,
and my aim in the present volume is to place before the younger members
of the profession, in the briefest and clearest terms possible, the
lessons I have myself learned. Beginning with the question, What is
Teaching? and ending with the wider question, What is Education? the
book will be found to take a pretty free range over the whole field of
practical inquiry among professional teachers. The thoughts presented