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Louis Agassiz as a Teacher : Illustrative Extracts on His Method of Instruction / Lane Cooper.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: revised editionDescription: 1 online resource (90 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501740589
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 590.1
LOC classification:
  • QH31.A2
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- II. AGASSIZ AT NEUCHÂTEL -- III. AGASSIZ AT HARVARD -- IV. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SHALER -- V. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR VERRIL -- VI. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR WILDER -- VII. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SCUDDER -- VIII. THE DEATH OF AGASSIZ-HIS PERSONALITY -- IX. OBITER DICTA BY AGASSIZ -- X. PASSAGES FOR COMPARISON WITH THE METHOD OF AGASSIZ
Title is part of eBook package: Cornell Univ. Press eBook-Package 2019Title is part of eBook package: Cornell Univ. Press eBook-Package Pilot Project 2019Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 EnglishTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Economics, Law & Social Sciences 2019 ENGTitle is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2019Summary: By a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. Sometimes he himself speaks, sometimes distinguished pupils of his reveal in their own words the process by which they were led to nature through direct and independent observation. The enthusiasm of their accounts is contagious.This collection of illustrative extracts on the ideals and practice of Louis Agassiz is probably unique in giving the actual methods of a great man of science in developing good students who could, in their turn, wisely instruct others. The book should be in the hands of all teachers, and of those who are preparing to teach.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- II. AGASSIZ AT NEUCHÂTEL -- III. AGASSIZ AT HARVARD -- IV. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SHALER -- V. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR VERRIL -- VI. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR WILDER -- VII. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SCUDDER -- VIII. THE DEATH OF AGASSIZ-HIS PERSONALITY -- IX. OBITER DICTA BY AGASSIZ -- X. PASSAGES FOR COMPARISON WITH THE METHOD OF AGASSIZ

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By a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. Sometimes he himself speaks, sometimes distinguished pupils of his reveal in their own words the process by which they were led to nature through direct and independent observation. The enthusiasm of their accounts is contagious.This collection of illustrative extracts on the ideals and practice of Louis Agassiz is probably unique in giving the actual methods of a great man of science in developing good students who could, in their turn, wisely instruct others. The book should be in the hands of all teachers, and of those who are preparing to teach.

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