A Compendious Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Professor Jacotot's Celebrated System of Education (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Joseph Payne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0331931540 ISBN 13: 9780331931549

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

Synopsis

Learn a method that lets students discover knowledge for themselves.

This book explains Jacotot’s Universal Instruction, a system built on the idea that explanations are unnecessary. By focusing on thorough memory and self-directed reflection, learners build understanding from a single, well-chosen core text and connect new knowledge to it.

This edition outlines the origins, principles, and practical steps of the method. It shows how repetition, memory, and active questioning work together to develop language and reasoning without heavy teacher prompting. The approach emphasizes reading, memorizing, and relating new material to what has already been learned, so the whole body of knowledge stays connected.

• Understand the key claim: learn one thing thoroughly and refer everything else to it.
• See how memory and judgment work together through guided, minimal-instruction questioning.
• Learn the step-by-step practice of memorizing and reciting, then linking ideas across the material.
• Explore how this method has been tested in real teaching contexts and what results it aims to produce.

Ideal for educators, students, and anyone curious about education reform, this book helps readers evaluate a system that claims to unify memory, understanding, and independence in learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331931540
• ISBN 13: 9780331931549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 70