USE OF BOORS IN EDUCATION.
The function of books in education is supplementary. They form an indirect means of acquiring knowledge where direct means fail. Yet teachers are eager to give second-hand facts instead of firsthand facts. Possessed by a superstition that worships the symbols of knowledge instead of‘knowledge itself j" they do not see : tluit only whenthe child’s acquaintance with the objects of the household, of the fields, and the woods, is becoming tolerably exhaustive, only then should the child be introduced to new sources of information which books supply. And this not only because immediate cognition is of a. greater value than mediate cognition, but also because the words contained in books can be rightly interpreted into ideas only in proportion to the antecedent experience of things.—ll. Spencer.
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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 114, 18 January 1879, Page 3
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130USE OF BOORS IN EDUCATION. Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 114, 18 January 1879, Page 3
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