Primary object lessons : for training the senses and developing the faculties of children. A manual of elementary instruction for parents and teachers. [Calkin's new object lessons.] [Principles on which Object Teaching is founded; Home Training of the Senses; Introductory School Lessons for cultivating Observation; Exercises for Training in Habits of Thinking; Apparatus for illustrating Form Illustrations; Shape of Lines; Position of Lines; Corners and Angles; First Ideas of Figures; First Step Figures as Symbols; Adding; Subtracting; How a Class may drill itself; Addition; Division Tables Equal Parts or Fractions; Words used to signify Size Length and Measure; Height and Depth; Plane Forms; Four-sided Forms; Many-sided Forms; Surface]

18th edition, Rewritten and enlarged ; xiv, [15]-442 p. : col. front., ill. ; 19 cm. ; At head of title: Calkin's new object lessons. ; LC: LB1519 ; OCLC: 69182013 ; dark purple cloth with gold lettering ; color frontispiece ; "Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw their own inferences. They should be told as little as possible, and induced to discover as much as possible. Humanity has progressed solely by self-instruction; and that to achieve the best results, each mind must progress somewhat after the same fashion, is continually proved by the marked success of self-made men.?" ; Contents : Principles on which Object Teaching is founded -- Home Training of the Senses -- Introductory School Lessons for cultivating Observation -- Exercises for Training in Habits of Thinking -- Apparatus for illustrating Form Illustrations -- Shape of Lines -- Position of Lines -- Corners and Angles -- First Ideas of Figures -- First Step Figures as Symbols -- Adding -- Subtracting -- How a Class may drill itself -- Addition -- Division Tables Equal Parts or Fractions -- Words used to signify Size Length and Measure -- Height and Depth -- Plane Forms -- Four-sided Forms -- Many-sided Forms -- Surface and Faces -- Solid Figures Sphere Hemisphere Spheroids -- Cube and Cubical Forms -- Pyramids -- Importance of Training the Eye -- Resemblance and Difference in Color -- Color and Form combined -- Shades and Tints of Color -- Primary and Secondary Colors -- Colors of Animals -- First Ideas of Number -- Time -- Comparing and classifying Sounds -- Primary Reading -- Facts to be Observed in teaching Reading -- The Object -- Reading from BooksHow to Teach the first Lesson -- Qualities of Objects -- Object Lessons -- Lessons on Objects Second Stage -- Lessons on Objects Third Stage -- Human Body -- About the Bones of the Human Body -- The Shape Uses and Growth of Bones -- Moral Training -- Ideas of the Soul ; VG. …