THE ART OF STUDY A MANUAL FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF THE SCIENCE BY B. A. HINSDALE, PH. D., LL. D. PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE AND THE ART OF TEACHING, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Author of "Schools and Studies," "Studies in Education," "How to Study and Teach NEW YORK .:. CINCINNATI .:. CHICAGO PREFACE. THE ultimate object of this book is to place the Art of Study as a tool or instrument in the hands of pupils and students in schools. But as this object can be reached only by way of the teachers, the book is primarily addressed to them, and to students of the science and the art of teaching. It is, therefore, plainly necessary in the first place to demonstrate the relations that should exist between the pupil and the teacher in the school, and then to present practical methods by which the teacher may establish and maintain such relations. Only through these means can the grand end be reached. The book, it will be seen, proposes a partial readjustment of the relations existing between the pupil and the teacher. In other words, it proposes to effect a partial shifting of the center of gravity in the school, by making the pupil the center of the system and placing the teacher in his proper orbit. It would have been easy greatly to multiply the parallel readings accompanying the chapters, but my observation is that in such a case a small but well-chosen bibliography is better than a large one. B. A. HINSDALE. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 3 |