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CitesAlexander Bain, Education as a Science (1879).
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'In the 1870s, Scottish educational theorist Alexander Bain attempted to clarify the imprecise term ['object lesson'] by specifyling three primary ways in which it was used. The first, Bain proposed, attempted to clarify the imprecise term by specifying three primary ways in which it was used. The first, Bain proposed, followed in the tradition of the Swiss educator Pestalozzi , who favoured bringing concrete examples of things into the classroom. Secondly, the object lesson for Bain was a kind of sensory training wheeeby children learned to refine their observational powers, classifying and discriminating between things they perceived. Third, the object lesson involved language acquisition and the association between written words and the things they described. By sensorily exeriencing an object - seeing it or touching it - children could come to recognize its written equivalent (Bain 1898, 132-135).' (156) -
QuotesE. Scripture, 'Education as a Science', The Pedagogical Seminary, 2 (1892), pp. 111-114.
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'The growing institutionalization of experimental psychology in the 1880s and 1890s fostered the notion that the child's malleable mind might be trained with precision. Experts believed that particular traits might be instilled upon young minds with almost surgical specificity. Early American psychologist E.W. Scripture, who studied under Wilhelm Wundt, suggested that scientists - and, by extension, educators - could cultivate or eliminate particular personality traits and habits 'just as a trainer shows thr athlete how best to apply his powers and the surgeon cuts out a hindering tumor.' (149)
