ITS PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUE BY WILLIAM CHANDLER BAGLEY PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. All rights reserved PREFACE THIS book is intended primarily for students of education in universities, training schools, and normal schools, who are preparing for classroom teaching, especially in the elementary grades. It aims, first, to furnish the prospective teacher with a compendium of precepts that will aid him in the mastery of technique; secondly, to interpret these precepts in the light of accepted psychological principles; and, thirdly, to unite both precepts and principles into a coherent and fairly comprehensive system. The data have been gathered from four sources: first and chiefly from observing the work of efficient and successful classroom teachers; secondly, from textbooks and treatises upon the subject of school management and classroom practice, numerous references to which will be found in the footnotes and at the close of the chapters; thirdly, from the writer's own experience; and fourthly, from general pchological principles. Data of the last-named class have, in every case, been subjected to actual test before being included in this volume. The writer is convinced that a successful science of education can never be produced by working backward from highly wrought theory to concrete practice. This procedure is a |