Author: Melville Thurston Cook

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9781330339770

Excerpt from Applied Economic Botany: Based Upon Actual Agricultural and Gardening Projects There are already so many text-books on botany that the author has long hesitated to present another to the educational public. The study of botany has developed very rapidly in the past quarter of a century and as a result we have a great variety of text-books representing an almost equally great variety of methods of presenting the subject. Yet, we meet with a continuous series of complaints against the poorly adapted secondary text-books for teaching in secondary schools, technical schools and colleges. The teacher in the secondary school says that text-books are written by college professors who do not understand the problems involved in secondary education the teacher in the technical school complains because the students from the secondary schools cannot correlate the botany with related subjects; the college professors complain because of the mechanical methods used in the secondary schools which discourage rather than encourage further study of the subject by those who enter college. Having served for a time as a high-school teacher, the author has some realization of the difficulties of the secondary schools. As a college professor he has some appreciation of the keen disappointment felt by those who conduct the Freshman entrance examinations, and who try to teach botany to the college students that come to college with ideas of botany obtained from their training in the secondary schools. By experience, he has learned that the results of the entrance examinations are fully as unsatisfactory when the questions are prepared by the high-school teachers as when prepared by himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.