MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON. BOMBAY. CALCUTTA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO DALLAS. SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO OF CLASS TEACHING BY J. J. FINDLAY, M.A., PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED 1914 F49 Сарук COPYRIGHT. First Edition, May 1902. Reprinted, November 1902, 1904, 1905, 1907, 1911, 1914. PREFACE THIS book is written with a very practical purpose. It is meant to help teachers-the younger generation of teachers-who are either already at work, or are preparing for their profession. Complaints are still made that young teachers will not be "trained," but there is sufficient evidence that men and women are far more interested in professional studies than they were ten years ago; and this genuine interest in professional pursuits is now about to be stimulated by the recent Order in Privy Council, requiring that teachers shall study Education before being recognised on the professional Register. But, quite apart from formal plans for "Training," there is a demand, constantly growing, for information about Education in all its aspects; and this demand needs to be met, not only by Courses of Study in Lectures, but by books. This book, then, has been prepared with the con 146300 fident belief that such writing is needed, and will be welcomed, as one factor in the task of "Training." The topics which it embraces are very wide, but an elaborate treatment, extending over several volumes, would have been ill adapted to the present situation. The pressure of multifarious duties upon teachers in Great Britain at the present day limits the amount of attention that the majority can give to professional studies and the first " charge" which the writer laid upon himself was to set out the matter in a form adapted to the practical requirements of teachers now at work, in days when we are slowly emerging as a profession. Practical these chapters are meant to be, in the best sense of the wordarising directly out of the writer's practice, with colleagues, in a large school. Everything here advanced comes from a quarter where Inspectors, Governors, parents, are ever present to watch, and if necessary to challenge, the results. The style of the book probably suffers on this account, for it has necessarily been put together in spare moments, and even the author anticipates a few of the defects which are due to this cause. But these defects may be outbalanced by the advantage of writing from the workshop instead of from the lecture-room, So far as the main principles are concerned, these |