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Description: 38STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.tic education needed, and the Normal School will confine itself
to instruction and training in the theory and practice of teach¬
ing. It may be doubted whether that time will ever come, and
for the following reasons:The sciences required to be taught in the Schools, are evolved
from a few concepts and principles
the science of Arithmetic
may be learned by beginning with its rules and their
applications, and going backward to the principles on which
its rules are based, or, it may be created by the mind,
by first attaining its principal concepts and principles, and
from these determining what its rules and their applica¬
tions must be. The latter may be called the logical, and
the former the chronological order. The teacher, to teach
with the best success, needs to understand the mode of attaining
the science by both processes. The child, having attained a few
concepts of number, begins arithmetical processes under the
guidance of rules, or of a teacher who develops rules, entering
as deeply into their meaning, as his maturity of mind and
mental vigor will permit. If the teacher has a logical knowl¬
edge of the subject, i. e., if he has attained the concepts, princi¬
ples and laws of the science, and the order of their dependence,
he will gradually load the pupil back of rules and processes, to
form in his own mind the concepts, and to perceive the princi¬
ples by which rules and processes are determined. This posi¬
tion the pupil may attain, if he has the maturity and vigor of
mind, and if he pursues the subject long enough.Again: out of the little portion of the earths surface one has
seen, and by the aid of factorial representations, and verbal
descriptions, the imagination constructs a conception of the
globe, with its surface elevations, their positions, forms and rela¬
tions. In like manner he gains a knowledge of the animals and
plants peculiar to the different zones, the minerals and their
distribution, and the occupations of men. The conceptions of
the globe thus formed by any number of persons, will not be
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Collection: Indiana State University Archives

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