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Strategies for Improvement of Instruction and Education

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Learning to Educate

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Man’s peculiar characteristic is his receptivity to progressive improvement. Education, which enriches his spirit with ideas and adorns his heart with virtues, is an effective means of promoting his progress. … If education is necessary and if it must be perfected through reforms suggested by observation of the human heart, then it becomes a question as important as the question of whether it is necessary to promote the happiness of mankind, and to enable man to attain as fully as possible all the aims intended by his Maker at the time of his creation.

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Schiefelbein, E., McGinn, N.F. (2017). Strategies for Improvement of Instruction and Education. In: Learning to Educate. Ibe On Curriculum, Learning, And Assessment. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-947-8_13

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