Author: Frederic Arnold Kummer
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ISBN:
Category : Cave dwellers
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The First Days of Man, as Narrated Quite Simply for Young Readers
Author: Frederic Arnold Kummer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cave dwellers
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cave dwellers
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The First Days of Man: As Narrated Quite Simply for Young Readers
Author: Frederic Arnold Kummer
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465605533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
ĂŠEvery child, between the ages of five and fifteen, seeks by constant questioning to grasp the fundamental facts upon which our whole fabric of present-day knowledge is based. These facts, painfully gathered by the human race during its many centuries of development, must of necessity be absorbed by the child within the short space of some ten or twelve years. It is a prodigious task, and one in which the growing mind should be afforded every possible assistance. Two courses are usually adopted by parents; one, to dismiss the child's questions with the stock phrase, "You are not old enough to understand," the other, to place in his hands some so-called book of knowledge, containing, it is true, a great mass of information which the child should possess, but usually so badly presented, so jumbled together, that no one fact has any bearing on another, and thus the child is left to turn from "Why the ocean is salt?" to "What is a lightning rod?" without the least understanding of the principles and laws which underly these and all other facts, and link them together in a composite whole. The writer has followed, with his own children, a method of presenting the steps in the gradual development of man which has produced most gratifying results. Instead of treating each fact, each laboriously accumulated bit of human knowledge, as a mere isolated patch in a crazy-quilt of information, he has attempted to arrange them in logical sequence, to form an interesting pattern, so that as the child's fund of knowledge increases, he feels a deeper and deeper interest in fitting each newly acquired fact into its proper place in his mental picture of things. The result is that the child is constantly building a structure which he understands. His mass of accumulated knowledge is not heaped together hap-hazard, like a pile of blocks, but each occupies its proper and logical place in a slowly developing whole. He derives pleasure from what would otherwise be hard work, just as he would derive pleasure from fitting together the pieces of a puzzle picture; he finds himself progressing toward some understandable end, and without knowing it, he has not only gathered his facts, and catalogued them, but he has begun to think about them, and their relation to each other, in short, he has begun the process of logical thought, which is the first and greatest step in all education.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465605533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
ĂŠEvery child, between the ages of five and fifteen, seeks by constant questioning to grasp the fundamental facts upon which our whole fabric of present-day knowledge is based. These facts, painfully gathered by the human race during its many centuries of development, must of necessity be absorbed by the child within the short space of some ten or twelve years. It is a prodigious task, and one in which the growing mind should be afforded every possible assistance. Two courses are usually adopted by parents; one, to dismiss the child's questions with the stock phrase, "You are not old enough to understand," the other, to place in his hands some so-called book of knowledge, containing, it is true, a great mass of information which the child should possess, but usually so badly presented, so jumbled together, that no one fact has any bearing on another, and thus the child is left to turn from "Why the ocean is salt?" to "What is a lightning rod?" without the least understanding of the principles and laws which underly these and all other facts, and link them together in a composite whole. The writer has followed, with his own children, a method of presenting the steps in the gradual development of man which has produced most gratifying results. Instead of treating each fact, each laboriously accumulated bit of human knowledge, as a mere isolated patch in a crazy-quilt of information, he has attempted to arrange them in logical sequence, to form an interesting pattern, so that as the child's fund of knowledge increases, he feels a deeper and deeper interest in fitting each newly acquired fact into its proper place in his mental picture of things. The result is that the child is constantly building a structure which he understands. His mass of accumulated knowledge is not heaped together hap-hazard, like a pile of blocks, but each occupies its proper and logical place in a slowly developing whole. He derives pleasure from what would otherwise be hard work, just as he would derive pleasure from fitting together the pieces of a puzzle picture; he finds himself progressing toward some understandable end, and without knowing it, he has not only gathered his facts, and catalogued them, but he has begun to think about them, and their relation to each other, in short, he has begun the process of logical thought, which is the first and greatest step in all education.
The First Days of Man
Author: Frederic Arnold Kummer
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333342388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Excerpt from The First Days of Man: As Narrated Quite Simply for Young Readers The writer has followed, with his own children, a method of presenting the steps in the gradual development of man which has produced most gratifying results. Instead of treating each fact, each laboriously accumulated bit of human knowledge, as a mere isolated patch in a crazy quilt of information, he has attempted to arrange them in logical sequence, to form an interesting pattern, so that as the child's fund of knowledge increases, he feels a deeper and deeper interest in fitting each newly acquired fact into its proper place in his mental picture of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333342388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Excerpt from The First Days of Man: As Narrated Quite Simply for Young Readers The writer has followed, with his own children, a method of presenting the steps in the gradual development of man which has produced most gratifying results. Instead of treating each fact, each laboriously accumulated bit of human knowledge, as a mere isolated patch in a crazy quilt of information, he has attempted to arrange them in logical sequence, to form an interesting pattern, so that as the child's fund of knowledge increases, he feels a deeper and deeper interest in fitting each newly acquired fact into its proper place in his mental picture of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
FIRST DAYS OF MAN
Author: FREDERIC ARNOLD. KUMMER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033835586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033835586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The first days of man
Author: Frederic Arnold Kummer
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Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Publisher:
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Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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The First Days of Man as Narrated Quite Simply for Young Readers, Illustrated
Author: Frederic Arnold Kummer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Books of 1912-
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Book Shelf for Boys & Girls from Nursery Rhyme to Grown-up Time
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Books of 1926(-1928). Cumulated from the Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library
Author: CHICAGO. Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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