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Updated: June 20, 2025
In teaching, he only is successful who supplies the conditions of growth that is all there is of the Science of Pedagogics, which is not a science, and if it ever becomes one, it will be the Science of Letting Alone, and not a scheme of interference.
Only when we have accomplished such an education as this for our American girls, the best material the world has ever yet seen, may we safely trust the interests of future generations to their strong, intelligent, and religious guidance. We may, from the same cause, expect soon to detect signs of the same trouble, to a marked degree, in Russia. Pedagogics as a System.
From what has been said, it will not be surprising to note that the curriculum of studies, according to the pedagogics of Bushido, consisted mainly of the following, fencing, archery, jiujutsu or yawara, horsemanship, the use of the spear, tactics, caligraphy, ethics, literature and history. Of these, jiujutsu and caligraphy may require a few words of explanation.
Soft pedagogics have taken the place of the old steep and rocky path to learning. But from this lukewarm air the bracing oxygen of effort is left out. It is nonsense to suppose that every step in education can be interesting. The fighting impulse must often be appealed to.
Sir Walter Scott was lame, too, but whoever heard of his discussing it, either by word of mouth or in print? Of Byron's life at Harrow we have many tales as to his defending his juniors, volunteering to take punishment for them and of lessons unlearned. He could not be driven nor forced, and pedagogics a hundred years ago, it seemed, was largely a science of coercion.
"Is Ottilia all you care for? It almost looks like it!" "But I can't send her away now that I have engaged her to teach the girls pedagogics and Latin." "Latin! Great Scott! Are the girls to be ruined?" "They are to know everything a man knows, so that when the time comes, their marriage will be a true marriage." "But, my love, all husbands don't know Latin!
Correspondence schools for the taming of bronchos are as naught; and treatises on the gentle art of wooing are of no avail follow nature's lead. Grammar is the appendenda vermiformis of the science of pedagogics: it is as useless as the letter q in the alphabet, or the proverbial two tails to a cat, which no cat ever had, and the finest cat in the world, the Manx cat, has no tail at all.
Divination and perception, not psychological pedagogics or theoretic strategy, are the only helpers here. But, if the use of psychological principles thus be negative rather than positive, it does not follow that it may not be a great use, all the same. It certainly narrows the path for experiments and trials.
For my own part, as far as experience in teaching goes, I was a mere fledgling: I knew nothing of the rules of pedagogics, as the Germans name it; but I adhered to the spirit indicated at the commencement of this discourse, and endeavoured to make geometry a means and not a branch of education.
Besides pedagogics, psychology was the chief sphere of his services. In antithesis to the philosophy of intuition with its imagined superiority to the standpoint of reflection, Herbart makes philosophy begin with attention to concepts, defining it as the elaboration of concepts.
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