Errors in school : their causes and treatment / by John Adams.

  • John Adams
Date:
1927
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Credit: Errors in school : their causes and treatment / by John Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the later stages the pupil wants to acquire certain knowledges and skills in order that he may become a certain kind of man that he has set up more or less deliberately as his ideal. To this end he finds the teacher of the greatest possible use; so, in the final years of the course, teacher and pupil work along as partners who understand one another and fit into each other. In preparing for this passage from the period at which the pupil is mainly educand to that period in which the pupil is mainly educator, nothing helps more than co-operation in the matter of errors. Once the proper relation is established between the teacher and the pupil in connection with the detection and correction of errors, the partnership is set up on a wholesome basis, and it is only a matter of time till the pupil emerges from the stage of pupilage and comes into the light of equal partnership. In fact, perhaps the finest result of the skilful manipulation of school errors is the hastening of the time of the complete understanding between pupil and teacher. When the pupil leaves school, naturally the partner¬ ship between him and his teacher is dissolved, and it is to this point that the whole school course should lead. The end of a successful education should be just this easy and natural disruption of a relation that no longer has any justification. Thackeray says somewhere that the wooer’s best plan of campaign is to make himself indispensable to his lady. With the educator the advice should be just the opposite. The teacher’s end in the double sense of aim and terminus is to make himself unnecessary. When he
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