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Teaching by Lectures
Cooper, Lane | May 4, 1918 issue

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The author believes that occasional stimulating lecture on a literary topic or the like is important for the purpose of arousing the latent interests of the pupil; his attention must be caught, and his energies aroused, by every legitimate device. Once caught and stirred, his interest and energies may be profitably directed into channels they never might enter of themselves. But it does not follow that the teacher should for ever be striving to win an attention that has once been fairly caught. Especially ridiculous is the practice of lecturing to the sophomores and freshmen in colleges and so-called universities as if they really were mature university students.

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LECTURE method in teaching; COLLEGE freshmen; COLLEGE students; EDUCATION; TEACHING; UNIVERSITIES & colleges
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