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Description: COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.PRELIMINAR Y ST A TEMENT.The State Normal School is a part of the Common School Sys¬
tem of the State. It was established to give to its students a
professional education. It is neither a High School, an Academy,
nor a College
but is a Technical School, having for its distinct¬
ive purpose instruction in the science and art of teaching.It seeks to accomplish this purpose in the following ways:1. By a thorough study of the branches of learning taught
in the different grades of the Common Schools. The aim is not
so much to teach the facts of these subjects as to make a thorough
study of the relations of these facts
or, in other words, to con¬
struct these facts into a science. When students enter the school,
however, without a knowledge of the facts, this knowledge must
be acquired before much progress can be made in the study of
the scientific phase of the subject. A science is a complement of
known facts arranged in the mind in their logical order of
sequence or dependence. Many persons who have_a fair knowl¬
edge of the principal facts of a science have a very inadequate
knowledge of the logical relations of these facts to each other.
The study of these relations opens up new lines and methods of
thought that make the Common School branches new and intense¬
ly interesting studies to most students.2. But a knowledge of the method that is in the subject is
insufficient for the teacher. He must know, also, the science of
mind and the order and process of the development of its dif¬
ferent powers. Were he required to teach only mature minds,
that had attained to the full development of their faculties, the
method in the subject might be all the knowledge needful to de¬
termine the method of instruction. But phases of all the com¬
mon school studies are to be taught to minds in all stages of
growth, from the child who learns almost solely through observa¬
tion, to the young man or woman who is able to reflect. The
former is capable of acquiring only an elementary knowledge
Source: http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/32372
Collection: Indiana State University Archives

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