A Text-Book in General Zoölogy (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Glenn W. Herrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331127297 ISBN 13 : 9781331127291

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Text-Book in General Zoölogy

The arrangement, presentation, and selection of the subject-matter in the present text-book have been determined by the experience gained from the labors of ten years in the class room with the grade of students for whom this work is intended. In fact, the text is simply a more orderly discussion of the same subjects in the same sequence that have been presented for ten years to successive classes in elementary zoology. The author, in his work with these students, has attempted to interpret, with much thought and care, the zoologi cal demands of such students according to their average receptivities and practical needs rather than by any preconceived ideas of what constitutes a knowledge of zoology. The aim has been to create an interest in nature, beget an acquaintance with the lives, habits, and activities of animals, train the powers of observation, quicken the judgment, widen the horizon of environment, augment the capabili ties for independent thinking, and inculcate an unswerving regard for the truth. The instruction that a potential citizen receives in zoology must give more than a mere acquaintance with animals. If the study of this science does not accomplish the objects enumerated in the fore going paragraph, it loses its highest value as an educational subject in the curricula of the common schools. That the study of zoology may fulfill its function as a subject of mental discipline and, at the same time, give to that large majority of pupils who become ordinary citizens an acquaintance with animals, the author has been led, from his experience in teaching, to include in a zoological course a goodly amount of natural history and comparative anatomy, a large share of animal ecology, economic zoology and physiology, a moderate amount of classification, embryology, and paleontology, something of the history of zoology, and, through all, a persistent presentation of the relationships of animals and of the manner in which they have been evolved. To present the foregoing divisions of the subject-matter of zoology in their proper relations and proportions is indeed a difficult task, and one which, at best, is open to criticism; but it is hoped that the pupils who follow the course here laid down will gain an acquaint ance with animals and acquire an interest in them, and, at the same time, receive that mental discipline which they would derive from the pursuit of other studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331127297
• ISBN 13: 9781331127291
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 404
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