tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post6626712630405242427..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: "Public School is Child Abuse"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-87125642466103218292014-03-25T21:49:02.416-04:002014-03-25T21:49:02.416-04:00I wonder why this book got filed away on some libr...I wonder why this book got filed away on some library shelf and forgotten. Wouldn't be nice to teach kids how to study?<br /><br />How to Study and Teaching How to Study (1909) by F. M. McMurry, Professor of Elementary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University<br /><br />Here are the factors McMurry makes a convincing case are already in children to be reinforced but instead are suppressed in children<br /><br /> The factors of studying:<br />1. Provision for Specific Purposes<br />2. The Supplementing of Thought<br />3. The Organization of Ideas <br />4. Judging the Soundness and General Worth of Statements<br />5. Memorizing<br />6. The Using of Ideas<br />7. Provision for a Tentative rather than a Fixed Attitude toward Knowledge<br />8. Provision for Individuality<br /><br />"In spite of the fact that schools exist for the sake of education, there is many a school whose pupils show a peculiar "school helplessness"; that is, they are capable of less initiative in connection with their school tasks than they commonly exhibit in the accomplishment of other tasks."JKBnoreply@blogger.com