COLLEGE TEACHING
STUDIES IN
METHODS OF TEACHING IN
THE COLLEGE
Edited by
PAUL KLAPPER, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education
The College of the City of New York
with an
Introduction by
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, LL.D.
President of Columbia University
Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York
WORLD BOOK COMPANY
1920
WORLD BOOK COMPANY
THE HOUSE OF APPLIED KNOWLEDGE
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Copyright, 1920, by World Book Company
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PREFACE
The student of general problems of education or of elementaryeducation finds an extensive literature of varying worth. In the lastdecade our secondary schools have undergone radical reorganization andhave assumed new functions. A rich literature on every phase of thehigh school is rapidly developing to keep pace with the needs and theprogress of secondary education. The literature on college educationin general and college pedagogy in particular is surprisinglyundeveloped. This dearth is not caused by the absence of problem, forindeed there is room for much improvement in the organization, theadministration, and the pedagogy of the college. Investigators ofthese problems have been considerably discouraged by the facts theyhave gathered. This volume is conceived in the hope of stimulating aninterest in the quality of college teaching and initiating ascientific study of college pedagogy. The field is almost virgin, andthe need for constructive programs is acute. We therefore ask for oureffort the indulgence that is usually accorded a pioneer.
In this age of specialization of study it is evident that no collegeteacher, however wide his experience and extensive his education, canspeak with authority on the teaching of all the subjects in thecollege curriculum, or even of all the major ones. For this reasonthis volume is the product of a coöperating authorship. The editordevotes himself to the study of general methods of teaching that applyto almost all subjects and to most teaching situations. In addition,he coördinates the work of the other contributors. He realizes thatthere exists among college professors an active hostility to the studyof pedagogy. The professors feel that one who knows his subject canteach it. The contributors have been purposely selected in order todispel this hostility. They are, one and all, men of undisputedscholarship who have realized the need of a mode of presentation thatwill make their knowledge alive.
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