EDUCATION AS A SCIENCE BY ALEXANDER BAIN, LL.D. Professor of Logic in the University BIBLIOTHECA MAR 1879 BODLEIANA LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1879 260 f PREFACE. IN the present work I have surveyed the Teaching Art, as far as possible, from a scientific point of view; which means, among other things, that the maxims of ordinary experience are tested and amended by bringing them under the best ascertained laws of the mind. I have devoted one long chapter to an account of the Intellect and the Emotions in their bearings on education. The remainder of the work is occupied with the several topics more specially connected with the subject. There are certain terms and phrases that play a leading part in the various discussions; and to each of these I have endeavoured at the outset to assign a precise meaning. They are- Memory, Judgment, Imagination, proceeding from the Known to the Unknown, Analysis and Synthesis, Object Lesson, Information and Training, doing One Thing Well. A separate consideration is also bestowed on Education Values, or an enquiry into the worth of the various subjects included in the usual routine of instruct the largest amount of space being given to Science. Under the designation-Sequence of Subjects (Psy |