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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 14 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 74463 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 teacher 11 school 8 time 8 study 8 child 7 work 7 pupil 6 man 6 good 6 boy 5 teaching 4 life 4 knowledge 4 interest 4 great 4 education 4 class 4 God 3 way 3 thing 3 subject 3 mind 3 method 3 history 3 day 3 Education 2 world 2 student 2 scholar 2 question 2 plan 2 nature 2 little 2 lesson 2 illustration 2 idea 2 footnote 2 find 2 fact 2 chapter 2 case 2 book 2 american 2 School 2 Professor 2 New 2 Mr. 2 Latin 2 College 2 Brown Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 4393 teacher 4191 school 2603 child 2368 time 2130 work 2002 study 1998 course 1819 life 1797 student 1755 pupil 1751 man 1620 boy 1594 subject 1538 class 1464 method 1450 fact 1382 knowledge 1370 thing 1349 college 1312 way 1310 mind 1307 education 1254 case 1207 year 1194 question 1151 day 1119 interest 1074 teaching 1051 part 1045 book 1034 word 1023 one 993 power 984 history 938 lesson 887 attention 867 principle 767 plan 763 problem 746 place 742 idea 741 nature 740 point 731 habit 720 purpose 712 result 703 other 692 order 668 hand 657 experience Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 7894 _ 355 Dodd 309 | 296 Mr. 263 Education 223 School 221 University 206 New 193 God 172 English 171 College 167 Miss 141 Latin 140 York 129 Professor 107 CHAPTER 106 States 105 United 102 Vol 99 John 97 American 93 James 92 C. 84 B. 83 Bright 83 America 82 W. 82 E. 81 Greek 79 Study 79 History 74 H. 72 D. 71 Company 71 Committee 71 A. 70 England 69 Stone 67 French 66 Weaver 65 J. 65 Association 64 Dr. 62 Brown 59 IV 58 Training 58 Teaching 58 Teachers 57 William 57 Harvard Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 11688 it 6996 he 6190 i 4928 they 3907 we 3898 you 2953 them 2109 him 1660 she 994 me 830 us 722 himself 475 themselves 448 itself 374 her 363 one 158 myself 108 herself 106 ourselves 103 yourself 20 theirs 18 his 15 yours 14 mine 11 ours 10 ''s 7 thee 5 yourselves 5 hers 4 oneself 2 ye 2 thyself 2 ''em 1 | 1 y^2 1 work,--they 1 wings,--they 1 todo 1 self,--his 1 history.=--in Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 43202 be 10637 have 4958 do 3107 make 2229 give 1725 know 1677 take 1622 say 1486 find 1442 see 1435 come 1343 go 1203 think 1059 teach 940 become 839 call 819 seem 814 read 804 use 804 learn 796 bring 764 get 723 write 685 follow 628 require 628 feel 625 look 612 ask 597 begin 593 mean 588 tell 575 lead 573 need 571 let 566 show 536 understand 534 study 512 keep 509 leave 497 try 476 work 468 develop 454 wish 435 consider 409 put 408 hear 404 suppose 397 grow 375 secure 374 stand Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7452 not 2721 more 2605 so 2213 other 1928 well 1884 only 1852 very 1719 great 1670 such 1645 good 1485 much 1474 then 1469 many 1380 most 1378 first 1308 as 1130 even 1129 now 1114 up 1102 own 1092 little 1004 same 979 general 974 out 854 new 837 high 824 far 794 too 741 large 734 also 726 just 712 however 691 never 686 thus 676 often 652 important 647 long 642 few 636 here 614 young 596 possible 594 true 590 old 583 necessary 578 rather 568 always 567 certain 562 mental 558 perhaps 554 still Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 587 good 338 most 321 least 166 great 131 high 62 Most 31 large 29 bad 28 slight 19 simple 19 early 17 late 15 noble 15 easy 14 strong 13 full 12 young 12 low 12 hard 12 fine 11 near 11 long 10 wise 9 pleasant 8 sure 7 wide 7 weak 7 short 7 rich 7 manif 6 old 6 mere 6 happy 5 safe 5 l 5 faint 5 deep 4 poor 4 keen 4 clear 4 broad 3 small 3 proud 3 dry 3 able 2 z 2 topmost 2 sharp 2 sad 2 ripe Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1041 most 93 well 65 least 2 hard 1 worst 1 soon 1 massacre,--the 1 highest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 teacher does not 14 education is not 11 knowledge is power 11 things being equal 10 knowledge is not 9 child does not 9 school is not 8 _ use _ 8 children are not 8 study is not 7 _ do _ 7 _ is _ 7 mind is not 7 teacher is not 6 life is not 6 man is not 6 pupils do not 6 teacher has not 6 teachers do not 6 teaching is not 5 _ feeling _ 5 _ have _ 5 _ is not 5 _ thinking _ 5 boys do not 5 children do not 5 interest is not 5 men do not 5 student does not 5 student is not 5 study does not 5 subject is not 5 teacher is really 5 teachers are not 5 thing is true 5 work is not 4 _ knowing _ 4 _ learn _ 4 _ means _ 4 boy did not 4 boy does not 4 cases are continually 4 education does not 4 knowledge is very 4 pupils did not 4 things go on 3 _ are _ 3 _ is more 3 _ know _ 3 _ teach _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ is not certain 2 _ make no effort 2 boys took no interest 2 course made no progress 2 knowledge is not power 2 life is not merely 2 mind is not only 2 pupils do not generally 2 teacher has not sufficient 2 teacher takes no apparent 2 teacher takes no notice 2 teacher took no notice 2 teachers do not perhaps 2 teaching is not merely 1 _ does not properly 1 boy is not advanced 1 boy made no motion 1 boys were not specially 1 case is no uncommon 1 child finds no great 1 children ''s not only 1 children are not merely 1 children are not properly 1 children are not well 1 children did not readily 1 children have no time 1 children have not yet 1 class is not necessarily 1 class is not too 1 class saw no better 1 class was not ready 1 classes are not averse 1 course be no stimulus 1 course is not so 1 day was not long 1 education are not so 1 education does not really 1 education is not germane 1 education is not indeed 1 education is not individualistic 1 education is not only 1 education is not so 1 fact is not enough 1 fact is not well 1 facts are no better 1 facts are not exactly 1 interest is not due 1 interest is not general 1 interest is not interest 1 interest is not only A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 12291 author = Abbott, Jacob title = The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young date = keywords = Card; God; Study; boy; case; class; day; duty; great; illustration; interest; plan; pupil; scholar; school; subject; teacher; time summary = school.--Principle which ought to govern.--Case supposed.--Extent to of leading a teacher to break in upon the regular duties of his school, some, especially in very small schools, the teacher allows the pupils to constructed by the teacher and pupils of a common country school from The boys answer "Yes, sir," and the teacher then looks carefully around Let a teacher propose to his pupils, formally, from his desk, the plan my general knowledge of school-boys, and the difficulties I know they If a thing is really hard for the pupil, his teacher ought to know it teacher told the boy, at the close of the school, that he wished to talk case." She ought to go to the teacher of the class to which her pupil time had, in this supposed school, lost its interest, and the teacher, 3. TARDINESS.--"My duty to this school," said a teacher to his pupils, id = 22251 author = Abbott, Jacob title = The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young date = keywords = Committee; God; boy; case; class; day; great; hour; interest; little; plan; pupil; scholar; school; subject; teacher; time; way summary = of leading a teacher to break in upon the regular duties of his school, a teacher knows that boys and girls, are the _materials_ he has to work schools, are all the time pressing upon the teacher: or rather, they are especially in very small schools, the teacher allows the pupils to act be of great advantage to the school, for the teacher to propose his new The boys answer, "Yes sir," and the teacher then looks carefully around Let a teacher propose to his pupils, formally, from his desk, the plan my general knowledge of school-boys, and the difficulties I know they If a thing is really hard for the pupil, his teacher ought to know it, taking a walk, the teacher observed a number of boys with excited looks, time had, in this supposed school, lost its interest, and the teacher by "My duty to this school," said a teacher to his pupils, id = 16987 author = Bagley, William C. (William Chandler) title = Craftsmanship in Teaching date = keywords = New; american; child; education; footnote; good; great; ideal; life; man; method; principle; problem; pupil; school; study; teacher; teaching; work summary = of school work in their practice teaching. frequently I have taken visiting school men to see this teacher''s work. hope that the general public will ever come to view our work in the true study the history of education from the work and writings of a few great simply means that Nature finished her work as far as man is concerned left the school, he never opened a book on educational theory. crying need in education to-day is a scientific investigation of methods present-day works upon education are very general in their nature. task of education is to fix in the pupils'' minds a number of facts and education, but I also maintain that the teachers of our lower schools do school, and studied at first hand the great work that he was doing for school to teach pupils the difference between fact and opinion, and id = 18698 author = Betts, George Herbert title = The Recitation date = keywords = Education; class; lesson; pupil; question; recitation; teacher; teaching summary = recitation is to discover what the pupils have prepared of the work therefore, to employ the recitation as a time for testing the class; the recitation is also the teacher''s opportunity to teach. A teacher who knows both the subject-matter and the class recitation is the teacher''s mental "point of contact" with his pupils. minds of the pupils the points related to the coming lesson. topics without the help of a teacher to stand by and ask questions; we In teaching by the question-and-answer method, the method the teacher suggests a topic of the lesson or asks a question question-and-answer method in testing the pupils on the preparation of The topical method gives the teacher the best opportunity to teach the the teacher talks to the class instead of asking them to recite. The teacher may also distract the class by answering questions asked educational system is open is that teachers try to teach and pupils id = 31067 author = Hart, John S. (John Seely) title = In the School-Room: Chapters in the Philosophy of Education date = keywords = Charlie; God; Normal; Professor; School; child; class; education; good; knowledge; lesson; man; mind; power; pupil; study; teacher; teaching; thing; time; word summary = draw from a child''s mind, by mere questioning, a knowledge, for Thus the mere act of giving a thought expression in words, fixes it more Sabbath-school teachers, and one reason why persons so engaged usually habit of punctuality only by actually coming to school in good time, day sound words are certainly among the things which parents and teachers become to the child''s mind instinct with meaning and life, the teacher teacher takes the charge of a class or of a school, for the purpose of helping forward the school generally; you may love the work of teaching and to all the pupils and teachers in the school, he thought it would be teach, and for this knowledge they do not need a Teachers'' Seminary. Normal School, or even to the class-room of a teacher trained in a teacher, but Miss ---had merely studied the _words_ and not the id = 29604 author = Klapper, Paul title = College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College date = keywords = Art; Association; Co.; College; Company; Department; Education; English; French; Greek; Harvard; Latin; New; Professor; School; States; Training; United; University; Vol; York; american; course; german; history; method; student; study; subject; teacher; teaching; work summary = glimpses into teaching methods in general; and courses in the history colleges science students are required to take two years of Latin. The subject matter in a college course is too frequently so organized college teachers know what subjects their students have already taken, subject matter clear in the minds of students, is, of course, helpful. A common method employed in advanced courses in college subjects general student or for the future high school teachers of the subject. This course should introduce the student to the college method of work =Standard for selecting subject matter for the general college course: =What can the study of American history give the college student?= It is the general practice of college courses in history to require College students will elect a course in the history of education with Courses in education in a college or university department may be course designed for college students, before beginning the special id = 19659 author = McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander) title = The Elements of General Method, Based on the Principles of Herbart date = keywords = Herbart; child; education; great; history; idea; interest; knowledge; life; mind; moral; natural; nature; school; science; study; teacher summary = how to unite home, school, and other life experiences of a child in The second great series of studies, the natural sciences, of history study is to form moral notions in children_. study of natural sciences, which is, "An understanding of life and of teachers, the first great problem in this field of common school effort of history and nature as the two chief subjects of study, the simple, history and nature are the really interesting objects of study for knowledge given in any school course as the _child''s mind_ itself. do not desire to find in the school studies a new center for a child''s history (in the broad sense) is the study which best cultivates moral geography, history, and natural science, a thoughtfulness and clearness knowledge as an aim of school education. courses of study in geography, natural science, or history, without arithmetic, and nature study, we desire to ground school discussions id = 6109 author = McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton) title = How to Study and Teaching How to Study date = keywords = Dr.; FACTOR; James; child; fact; find; footnote; good; idea; knowledge; method; question; read; school; student; study; teacher; thought; time; work summary = learn how to study, because teachers admit the fact very generally. topics, or to study in general; for different subjects cannot vary children really cannot study, what an excuse their teachers have for method of study would be advisable, that teachers should set a good study requires abundant energy, for it is hard work; and young people education once undertook to plan subject-matter in nature study for the question at present; the general nature of children must determine street, and school life of her pupils, of their study and reading, if that children may form their idea of study from them alone, which they including college students, study largely in this way. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO GROUP RELATED FACTS Children who use reference works might now and then study an Ways of leading children to memorize through thinking in study children to include the using of knowledge as a part of their study, id = 13049 author = Pearson, Francis B. (Francis Bail) title = Reveries of a Schoolmaster date = keywords = Brer; Brown; Fox; John; Mr.; Shakespeare; book; boy; chapter; day; good; like; little; man; right; school; thing; time; way; work summary = for a good half-hour he talked in a familiar way about great affairs, man sought me out on our way home from school and asked questions each day, it would be a great help to us and to our boys and girls. time, but I think I know, from my experience with that problem, just talk to my neighbor John of the big things of life and feel no shame book called "Things of the Mind," and I like to read it. much time in my life trying to discover whether a book is worth a I like to browse around among my books, and am trying to have my boys don''t want the folks who get it to think I look like that. strain on a boy at times to seem polite when he feels like hurling things like that I shall grade his behavior one of these days. id = 14567 author = Pearson, Francis B. (Francis Bail) title = The Reconstructed School date = keywords = Brown; Sam; boy; child; education; goal; life; man; pupil; quality; school; spiritual; study; teacher; work; world summary = adjusts difficult situations in her school by inducing the pupils to think if he can bring teachers, pupils, and parents to think toward a common all the schools of the world, if only we set up as goals the qualities schools to the end that the teachers they send forth may measure up to the For the teachers we establish goals of school endeavor and thus arithmetic or other school studies, we shall win the feeling that we are teachers, and people will come to think in unison and thus their ways will school experience sound in body, in mind, and in spirit, society will teachers and pupils to go on their way year after year thinking that teacher, at times, seems to think of the school as a mammoth syringe with If the child lacks this quality at the end of his school life, id = 17588 author = Pearson, Francis B. (Francis Bail) title = The Vitalized School date = keywords = Education; book; boy; chapter; child; exercise; find; good; history; interest; life; man; pupil; questions; school; study; teacher; teaching; thing; time; way; work; world summary = school processes in terms of life processes, and to suggest ways in school-teacher?" means one thing; but the question "Can she teach 5. Justify the apparent length of the school day to teachers and pupils, 6. Some teachers maintain that school is a preparation for life, while education and normal schools to generate and promote methods of teaching the life processes, not as a mere task of the school, but as a privilege When work is made a privilege by the expert teacher, school procedure ten-minute teacher is worthy of a place in the vitalized school. ideal of one or more pupils in her school and bases her rule of life In the good time to come when the school teaches reading for the purpose the child so that these school activities are as much a part of his life for, within the school, he may find work that represents life in all its id = 30296 author = Sands, Nathaniel title = The Philosophy of Teaching The Teacher, The Pupil, The School date = keywords = Cloth; College; Latin; child; knowledge; mind; nature; school; teacher summary = humble lot and ill-requited labors, the class of school-teachers The question which is ever present to the mind of the true teacher is: faculties of the human mind naturally unfold themselves, for true The true teacher does not seek to teach by simply putting books into the teacher has ever present to his mind the question: How am I to perform As the object of the school-teaching should be to prepare the pupils for Another great object with the true teacher, will be so to train the teacher in his instruction, is an ill-ordered school. child''s body and mind should be carefully trained, so as to develop all 40 teachers engaged in the practical work of teaching in our common a school where pupils shall be taught by illustrations from nature as well of "The Teacher, the Pupil, the School," by Mr. Nathaniel Sands. id = 13398 author = Smith, William Hawley title = The Evolution of "Dodd" A pedagogical story giving his struggle for the survival of the fittest, tracing his chances, his changes, and how he came out date = keywords = Amos; Amy; Bright; CHAPTER; Dodd; God; Miss; Mr.; Stone; Weaver; boy; good; man; school; time summary = man took the boy to his mother and explained matters, assuring "Dodd" "Dodd" saw the old man coming, and realizing something of the Tell a boy like "Dodd" that he is on the high road to ruin, the prison, school room, and had a chance to try his tools on "Dodd." Wait a As for "Dodd," it was his last day of school with Amos Waughops. "Dodd" came late to school when he did come, and evidently counted on So, tricked out in this disgusting fashion, "Dodd" slouched into Mr. Bright''s school room about ten o''clock in the forenoon, and flung gone, and for the first time "Dodd" Weaver and Mr. Charles Bright were Mr. Bright made a point with "Dodd" by his quick discovery of the boy''s "Now ''Dodd,''" said Mr. Bright, speaking to the boy for the first time "Dodd" and Mr. Bright walked home together after school was out. id = 12769 author = Strayer, George D. (George Drayton) title = How to Teach date = keywords = activity; attention; child; fact; grade; habit; illustration; individual; result; school; situation; study; teacher; time; type; value; work summary = Any careful study of the mental life and development of children reveals school class in English literature in which children are at work in Children come to school with both an original nature determined by their teacher must work primarily in terms of developing, in so far as he can, It is necessary at times to have children give forced attention. after having given forced attention to the work of the school, children attention to the fields of work in which children are engaged, but also children are able to concentrate their attention upon the work in hand, work of time and must result from definite physical changes. 8. Should school children reason their responses in case of a fire work is needed before definite general results can be stated. 3. What kind of images do you seek to have children use in their work in time in teaching children to form right habits.