by John Milton Gregory.
Gold. This is at least my fifth time through it, and it always pays. The final “law” is about the necessity of review because of the power of review, so this recent review really rocked.
JMG expects that good teaching (and learning) will happen when these laws are followed. It’s an objective standard, maybe even more an objective hope that doesn’t exist in our modern educational system. We’re supposed to have high esteem for our students, but almost no expectations that we can reach them, that they will learn, or care. This book hits different.
Anyway, much encouragement and conviction and opportunity to sharpen one’s teaching tools.
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2018
Absolutely fantastic. Makes me feel guilty in all the right ways every time I read it. As Gregory says, the ideal teacher is “an incarnate assemblage of impossible excellencies.”
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2013
Reread with the ECS school board in the first half of 2013; an invaluable vade mecum for every teacher.
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2011
A brief, mostly common sensical, yet clear and convicting manual for teachers. Originally written for a Sunday school setting, Gregory’s “laws” apply to anyone trying to teach whatever to whomever.
Also, this particular, unabridged edition from Veritas Press is the one to buy/read. I started with a Kindle version that had been brutally cut of some of the ripest fruit. If “abridged” means to shorten without losing the sense, the abridged versions fail miserably.
STILL 5 of 5 stars