In the School Room: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In the School Room, credited to John S. Hart, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of In the School Room by John S. Hart. Read in English by volunteer readers. In the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. Talking to a class is not necessarily teaching. I have known many teachers who were brimful of information, and were good talkers, and who discoursed to their classes with ready utterance a large part of the time allotted to instruction; yet an examination of their classes showed little advancement in knowledge. (Summary by John S. Hart)

Recording facts

• Recording title: In the School Room
• Author credits: John S. Hart
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 8:11:40

Catalogue topics

• education

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Preface — 3:21
2. 01 - Chapter 1 What is Teaching? — 19:04
3. 02 - Chapter 2 The Art of Questioning — 12:27
4. 03 - Chapter 3 The Difference Between Teaching and Training — 6:10
5. 04 - Chapter 4 Modes of Hearing Recitations — 8:14
6. 05 - Chapter 5 On Observing a Proper Order in the Development of the Mental Faculties — 15:27
7. 06 - Chapter 6 Teaching Children What They Do Not Understand — 7:07
8. 07 - Chapter 7 Cultivating the Memory in Youth — 13:33
9. 08 - Chapter 8 Knowledge Before Memory — 6:39
10. 09 - Chapter 9 The Power of Words — 11:07
11. 10 - Chapter 10 The Study of Language — 4:09
12. 11 - Chapter 11 Cultivating the Voice — 5:28
13. 12 - Chapter 12 Eyes — 5:40
14. 13 - Chapter 13 Errors of the Cave — 5:30
15. 14 - Chapter 14 Men of One Idea — 9:49
16. 15 - Chapter 15 A Talent for Teaching — 6:00
17. 16 - Chapter 16 Teaching Power — 7:12
18. 17 - Chapter 17 Growing — 7:18
19. 18 - Chapter 18 Loving the Children — 6:24
20. 19 - Chapter 19 Gaining Affections of the Scholars — 6:05
21. 20 - Chapter 20 The Obedience of the Children — 9:55
22. 21 - Chapter 21 Rarey as an Educator — 6:55
23. 22 - Chapter 22 A Boarding School Experience — 14:06
24. 23 - Chapter 23 Phrenology — 17:42

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