Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge.
- Oliver Lodge
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![propounded, with time allowed for brooding and thinking over them,— not minutes, I mean, but days. In geometry, for instance, con- structions can be invented by a pupil; the subject can be begun as a game, a series of interesting puzzles,—a very few at a time, even if easy, so as not to be wearisome. Spencer’s “Inven- tional Geometry” is a little book that is of assistance to elementary teach- ers. Things self-discovered are en- shrined, and hold a place in the mind far more secure than things merely hooked on outside. Interest may be killed by prema- ture systematic instruction. Infor- mation concerning things of no inter- est is valueless information. Curios- [45]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
