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Natural Method for German ?
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27 October 2011 at 1:23pm | IP Logged

AndrewL wrote:

There's also this book followed by this book, which form the Studien und Plaudereien series.

Studien und Plaudereien wrote:

How times have changed!
Formerly it was thought that a nation existed only for the sake of its ruler; to-day the belief is that the man at the head of a people is only a first servant.
The schoolmaster of olden time was the ruler of the school; to-day every good teacher considers himself in the service of the students intrusted to his care, and concedes that each of them possesses individuality and has rights that he must respect; he deems it his duty to consider above all things the true interest of those under his charge, and consequently will carefully prepare their way, so as to make it as easy and pleasant as possible, and assist them in attaining their ends with the least loss of strength and time....

SIGMON M. STERN.
Stern's School of Languages,
New York, August 31st, 1881.

I knew that there's nothing really new in language teaching methodology, things just come round in cycles, but I was amazed to read that introduction about the attitude to teaching from 1881.
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03 November 2011 at 6:57pm | IP Logged

Strangely enough, I got the second book in that series to work in iBooks. All you have to do is download it onto your computer in ePub format, drag it into iTunes, and then proceed to sync it. It'll show up in iBooks automatically after that in the same format a normal iBook is in. Works pretty sweetly too, I might add. Now to read it all the way through...
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