Excerpt from Elements of Pedagogy: A Manual for Teachers, Normal Schools, Normal Institutes, Teachers' Reading Circles and All Persons Interested in School Education Education as an art is based primarily on the nat ure of the being educated. This fact is illustrated not only in the education of different classes Education of human beings, as infants and adults, the as a A blind, the deaf, and the feeble-minded, but also in the training of different brute animals, as the horse, the dog, and the monkey. In the education or training Of these and other diverse classes, the means employed Obviously vary as the nature of the being varies. It follows that the determining of the methods to be employed in the education of any class of human beings involves a knowledge of their educable nature; and hence the determining of methods and courses Of school education involves a knowledge of the edu cable nature of children and youth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.