74 sum COLLEGE or KENTUCKY.
in teaching, or have not been over these branches one or more
 ' times, will be classified in the five months’ classes.
` 2. SKILL IN TEAcHINo,—·rHn KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO TEAcH.—
This can be acquired best by successful practice; but there is a
Science as well as an Art of Teaching. Teaching must not be
wholly empirical, There are fundamental principles upon
which all true teaching rests, and the purpose here is to fix
these principles in the minds of the pupils. It is the carrying
` out of these principles, their successful and practical applica-
tion, that lifts the work of the Teacher to the dignity ofa pro-
i fession. It is the direct inculcation of these principles and the
j practical drill in their application that distinguish the Teach-
{ ers’ Training School from all other schools. The Teachers’
Training School should work in the faith that teaching is the
highest professign, and the atmosphere of such a school should
be filled with the professional spirit.
Since the principles of the Science of Education rest on the
activities and processes of the growing mind, special attention
is given to Educational Psychology. A study of this subject is
followed by a thorough drill in School Management and
~ the most rational and effective Educational Methods. The ~
principles of Management and Methods are constantly presented
in their relations to the principles of Psychology. Finally the
student-teacher is introduced to the History of his profession
abroad and at home. The Professional Course proper, then,
consists in Educational Psychology; Management in Education}
Method in Education; and the History of Education.
3. Som: BRoAn nm LIBERAL OULTURE.—HG who knows
only the subjects he has to teach and something of how to teach
them is not yet a Teacher. He must know as much more as he
can; must have some knowledge of subjects higher than any-
. thing he will be called on to teach, and different from them.
Human knowledge is so interrelated that otherwise he cannot
* have the copiousness of illustration necessary to make the sim-
r plest and commonest facts as clear as they should be. The rela-
{ tions of facts must be taught,——hence the growing need of liberal
culture, a widened horizon, for the Teacher.