The art of teaching
By: Gilbert Highet
Series: Vintage books -- v.1
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Teaching; Enseignement
Description: The noted classicist presents his educational methodology, within the context of history, from the Sophists to modern teaching.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. -- Introduction; title: Teaching constantly changes --; title: It covers many different subjects in school and college --; title: It is widely practiced by ordinary people in daily life --; title: It is difficult and important --; title: This book is an outline of its methods, not of its subjects -- -- II. -- The Teacher; title: His rewards and his difficulties --; title: The qualities of a good teacher --; title: The abilities of a good teacher -- -- III. -- The Teacher's Methods; title: Preparation --; title: Communication --; title: Fixing the impression -- -- IV. -- Great Teachers and Their Pupils; title: The sophists --; title: Socrates --; title: Plato --; title: Aristotle and Alexander --; title: Jesus --; title: Good teachers and bad pupils --; title: Renaissance teachers --; title: The Jesuit teachers --; title: Teachers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries --; title: Fathers of great men -- -- V. -- Teaching in Everyday Life; title: Fathers and mothers --; title: Husbands and wives --; title: Executives --; title: Doctors --; title: Psychiatrists --; title: Clergymen and priests --; title: Advertisers, publicists, propagandists --; title: Authors and artists --; title: Principals of everyday teaching.