Excerpt from Elementary Pedagogy Every teacher should be grounded in educational theory. It is said that Experience is a good schoolmaster, but experience gained in the schoolroom is expensive both to the child and to the teacher, unless it be preceded on the part of the latter by a study Of educational philosophy. Such philosophical study should prevent many mistakes and enable the teacher to give his pupils the best that the world has yet learned. Nothing less than this is their due, and the teacher must be prepared to Offer nothing less. Hence the necessity of a knowledge of pedagogy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.