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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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150 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. course will be closely aligned both in time and in the pedagogical treatment of the topics with the development of the student's work in the sciences he has elected. Every student will begin his course by being thoroughly grounded in Herbert Spencer's Education, especially in the chapters on " What Knowledge is of the Most Worth," and on "Intellectual Education." Immediately afterwards he will enter upon the study of the best methods of introducing, presenting, and enlarging scientific work, including a study of the comparative value of scientific text books, and a training for representing the claims of science work before boards and conventions and in the educational press. This training will include a study of science teaching in Illinois, its progress, and the obstacles to it. In offering this course, the department is assisted by a loan collection of books upon the pedagogy of the natural sciences from the shelves of the zoological department. Fall term, fall study. pedagogy of university grade, the study of educational history and of educational classics can not be dissociated. No great writer can be understood except in his historical environment. On the other hand, educational history is the history of ideas. These ideas are set forth in the great writers on education. Students are advised to take this course in the sophomore year. The classics will be read by the students themselves; the connective history will be delivered in lectures. Fall and winter terms, full study. Professor ECKOFF. 6. LATIN PEDAGOGY.—By Professor ECKOFF. 5. HISTORY AND CLASSICS.— In concurrence with the Latin department, the department of pedagogy offers a course on the pedagogy of Quintilian. Fall term, three-fifths study. Professor ECKOFF. Bequired: Latin 10, antecedently or concurrently. 7. SPENCER'S SYNTHETIC PHILOSOPHY.—The more difficult or critical parts of Herbert Spencer's philosophy will be treated in lectures. Those portions which are more closely allied with particular sciences will be read, each by students in the respective science treated. The results of these readings will be compared, discussed, and united, both among themselves and with the results of the lectures at a seminary. Winter and spring terms, full study. Professor ECKOFF. Mequired: 20 university credits.
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