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How to Study and Teaching How to Study
Professor of Elementary Education in
Teachers College, Columbia University
How to Study and Teaching How to
Study is a perfect guide on various techniques for quick
and effective digestion of everything that we study. It also includes tips on how one can effectively impart knowledge to any audience.
Whether your are a Student of a Teacher How To Study is a Highly-informative Manual That Will Help Guide You in whatever you endeavor in the field of Learning and Teaching.
Contents
PART I
PRESENT METHODS OF STUDY; NATURE OF STUDY AND ITS PRINCIPAL FACTORS
I. INDICATIONS THAT YOUNG PEOPLE DO NOT LEARN TO STUDY PROPERLY;
THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE EVIL
II. THE NATURE OF STUDY, AND ITS PRINCIPAL FACTORS
PART II
NATURE OF THE PRINCIPAL FACTORS IN STUDY, AND THEIR RELATION TO
CHILDREN
III. PROVISION FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, AS ONE FACTOR IN STUDY
IV. THE SUPPLEMENTING OF THOUGHT, AS A SECOND FACTOR IN STUDY
V. THE ORGANIZATION OF IDEAS, AS A THIRD FACTOR IN STUDY
VI. JUDGING OF THE SOUNDNESS AND GENERAL WORTH OF STATEMENTS, AS A
FOURTH FACTOR IN STUDY
VII. MEMORIZING, AS A FIFTH FACTOR IN STUDY
VIII. THE USING OF IDEAS, AS A SIXTH FACTOR IN STUDY
IV. PROVISION FOE A TENTATIVE RATHER THAN A FIXED ATTITUDE TOWARD
KNOWLEDGE, AS A SEVENTH FACTOR IN STUDY
X. PROVISION FOR INDIVIDUALITY, AS AN EIGHTH FACTOR IN STUDY
PART III
CONCLUSIONS
XI. FULL MEANING OF STUDY; RELATION OF STUDY TO CHILDREN AND TO THE
SCHOOL
INDEX
Book Excerpts:
No doubt every one can recall peculiar methods of study that he or some one else has at some time followed. During my attendance at high school I often studied aloud at home, along with several other temporary or permanent members of the family. I remember becoming exasperated at times by one of my girl companions.
She not only read her history aloud, but as she read she stopped to repeat each sentence five times with great vigor. Although the din interfered with my own
work, I could not help but admire her endurance; for the physical labor of mastering a lesson was certainly equal to that of a good farm hand, for the same period of time.
This way of studying history seemed extremely ridiculous. But the method pursued by myself and several others in beginning algebra at about the same time was not greatly superior. Our text-book contained several long sets of problems which were the terror of the class, and scarcely one of which we were able to solve alone.
We had several friends, however, who could solve them, and, by calling upon them for help, we obtained the "statement" for each one. All these statements I memorized, and in that way I was able to "pass off" the subject.
A few years later, when a school principal, I had a fifteen-year-old boy in my school who was intolerably lazy. His ambition was temporarily aroused, however, when he bought a new book and began the study of history. He happened to be the first one called upon, in the first recitation, and he started off finely.
But soon he stopped, in the middle of a sentence, and sat down. When I asked him what was the matter, he simply replied that that was as far as he had got. Then, on glancing at the book, I saw that he had been reproducing the text verbatim, and the last word that he had uttered was the last word on the first page.
These few examples suggest the extremes to which young people may go
in their methods of study. The first instance might illustrate the muscular method of learning history; the second, the memoriter method of reasoning in mathematics. I have never been able to imagine how the boy, in the third case, went about his task; hence, I can suggest no name for his method.
While these methods of study are ridiculous, I am not at all sure that they are in a high degree exceptional.
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