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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mode of teaching in which objects themselves are made the subject of lessons, tending to the development of the observing and reasoning powers. See
object-lesson .
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Examples
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Father Joseph treated the Indians altogether as children, and devised a system of object-teaching, making little images representing what they were to shun, and what to seek, to which he pointed in instructing them.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton
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It is evident, moreover, that no progress could be made through object-teaching, unless the question and answer method is used in conjunction.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Hers was one of the first books which pursued object-teaching as the true method and made original observation the basis of investigation.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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It was an object-teaching, a grasping of ideas by forms seen in the mind, not a presenting of abstract ideas as in literature.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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It has all the advantage of object-teaching, the powerful attraction of real things, but its comparison with other objects will also show that it illustrates a general law or principle of wide-reaching scientific importance.
The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Charles Alexander McMurry 1893
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Hence comes the need of object-teaching, if teaching is to be real.
The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches David Starr Jordan 1891
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The object-teaching of Pestalozzi seemed to him not to go far enough; and he was always seeking to regard man not only as a receptive being, but a creative, and especially as a productive one.
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889
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At least thrice a week excursions of several hours 'duration are made into the neighbouring woods and hills, accompanied by a teacher for each class, and during these excursions all kinds of object-teaching are pursued.
Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884
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The kindergarten methods, the object-teaching routine, the blackboard and manual-training work, -- all recognize this feature.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876
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These lend themselves better to explicit treatment; and I myself, in dwelling so much upon the native impulses, and object-teaching, and anecdotes, and all that, have paid my tribute to the line of least resistance in describing.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876
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