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might as well be done before. or after school hours. I may wrong, but the impression.

be

I have received is that

of you-

I do not say during

as a rule d

many all-do

school hours

all that kind of schoolwork

which

every teacher in Europe-

has to do at home.

IX:

Passing

on

now, from Europe

methods

mapplice

matters of organisation and theories discipline to questions of method, to school for Chine I must agam refer to mpelf. It has been publicly suggested, in the Daily Tress and in the last official Report of this School, that I am

theorist, Well I will

but a

tell you what my theory of

educational method is. It

is with me a settled conviction,

derived not from books but from a life spent in connection

with

a

with schools and teachers

that a school, whether in Europe or in China, does

best, if you secure

for it

men who are born teachers and then leave each man

to use his own judgment as to method, Keeping him only alert to the necessity. of constantly watching that species of child-nature which he has under his A master must use eyes.

his cun

judgment. In fact my experience is that

a method which works wonders under the hands.

of

one Master, would ruin a class under the hands

of another, and that a good teacher will, under any circumstances,

sonv

construct

his own method adopted to

there