The Art Of Study; A Manual For Teachers And Students Of The Science And The Art Of Teaching - new book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE ART OF STUDY DEFINED. We have now denned learning, teaching, and study, and demonstrated their relations. The pupil learns when he acquires knowledge, and the teacher teaches when he assists the pupil to learn. Again, the pupil studies when he seeks to meet his teacher fairly and squarely on the lesson that has been assigned him by preparing that lesson. But what is the art of study ? The term " art" is used in two senses. First, it means skill or practical ability actually shown in the pursuit of Two Senses some calling or activity. Secondly, it means of Art: The the activity in which such skill is shown con- Fractlcal ana the sidered as a subject. Thus, when we speak of Reflective. tne photographer's art we may mean either the degree of skill or proficience that a particular photographer shows in making photographs, or the making of such pictures considered as a vocation to be followed or a subject to be studied. The same may be said of painting, oratory, architecture, teaching, or any other pursuit to which the term " art" is properly applied. To be master of one's art is to possess much ability in the prosecution of some employment called an art. Furthermore, an art in the second sense has its own methods, rules, and history that may be made the subjects of investigation or study. In this sense the term " reflective " may be appliedto an art, the suggestion being that the cultivator of this art halts, so to speak, in his practice or activity in order to make it the subject of examination. Nor is this all: certain arts have rules and methods in common, and so we apply the term to them collectively, calling them art in a general or abstract sense. The relations of art as practical skill and art as method or a code of rules is an interesting sub...