...arrive at a fit condition for that most valuable of all exercises for the reflective faculties — the making of original demonstrations. Such theorems as...requirements that education shall be a repetition of civilisation in little, that it shall be as much as possible a process of self-evolution, and that...

...of development — Perception, Conception, Judgement. 2. Proceed from the known to the unknown, from the simple to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract ; from the whole to the parts, from the particular to the general. 3. Accustom the child to activity. Never tell...

...natural order — perception, conception, judgment. 2. Proceed from the known to the unknown — from the simple to the complex — from the concrete to the abstract — from the whole to the parts (with reference to objects and phenomena) — from the particular to the general...

...proceed to the consideration of the respective facts. However, as a rule, they should proceed from the simple to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract, from the homo13 geneous to the heterogeneous. if possible, the mind should be introduced to principles through...

...can you best exercise in your pupils the memory ? Comparison ? Judgment ? 164. What do you mean from the simple to the complex ? From the concrete to the abstract ? From the known to the unknown ? 165. Give your method of cultivating self-reliance in pupils. 166. From what...

...be apparent ; for manifestly the course ascertained by these means alone will as a whole pass from the simple to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract, from the empirical to the rational, and will also comply with the principles 5 and 6, which indeed, are but corollaries from it. On theother...

...considers learning by heart not learning at all, and with Pestalozzi he would have the student proceed from the simple to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract, from the empirical to the rational, from the easy to the difficult. Exception may be taken to M. Comte's doctrine, endorsed in this essay,...

...race." That is, the law of intellectual growth should be the law of self-evolution — a proceeding from the concrete to the abstract, from the empirical to the rational. In moral education the law of self-government should be taught by allowing natural results, pleasure...

...Pestalozzi so earnestly and successfully worked to establish — that all teaching must proceed from the simple to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract, from the known to the unknown, since this is an admitted axiom with all teachers but those who still gallantly...

...practice and an accruing experience, with its empirical generalisations before there can be Science." " Progress from the simple to the complex, from the...the abstract,. from the empirical to the rational." — Herbert Spencer. The ability to make business calculations with ease, accuracy, and speed, is an...