COMMON SENSE

IN EDUCATION

AND TEACHING

An Introduction to Practice

BY

P. A. BARNETT, M.A.

Trinity College, Oxford
Late Superintendent of Education for Natal

Eighth Impression

Longmans, Green, and Co
39 Paternoster row, London
New York, Bombay, and Calcutta

1908

Bibliographical note

First printed, June, 1899; reprinted, May, 1900; New
Impression, January, 1901; Third Edition, December,
1901; Fourth Edition, 1902; New Impression,
August, 1905; Fifth Edition, 1906
Reprinted October 1908.

TO

EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT D.D.

A GREAT TEACHER AND A TRUE FRIEND

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

WITH RESPECT AND AFFECTION

BY AN OLD PUPIL

CONTENTS

Advertisement to the First Edition

CHAPTER

I. Instruction as Discipline

II. The Discipline of Character

III. The Physical Basis of Education

IV. The Genesis of Curricula

V. The Manipulation of Curricula

VI. Audible Speech

VII. Literature and Formal Linguistic Study

VIII. Latin and Greek

IX. Mathematics and Physical Science

X. Geography and History

XI. Warnings from History

XII. The Making of the Teacher

Preface to Second Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

Note on the Fifth Edition

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