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TEMPO SCHOOL
AN OUTLINE OF PHILOSOPHY AND
METHOD
G.N. Cormack, M.D.
Edmonton 1963
"We have lost the
tools of learning...
The sole true end of education is simply this:
To teach men how to learn for themselves."
Dorothy L. Sayers
The Lost Tools of Learning
Contents:
Page 1
Tempo School's Fundamental Principles
- All teaching is pre-eminently the task of
parents
- The school is only one agency helping to
educate children - and its function is primarily intellectual
Teaching and Learning
- Why do parents not teach their own children?
- Can intelligent parents teach their own
children?
- What should be the nature of the school's
own task?
- To learn to think for oneself and to learn
how to learn.
Page 2
The Formal Program of Instruction
I. The "discipline" of formal learning
- How the school lays the basis of learning
- Concentration in area
- Concentration in time
- Authoritative information
- Deduction and logical reasoning
- Induction and observation
- Aesthetic observation
- Creativity
II. The cyclical nature of leaning
III. Individual development
Page 3
Other Activities
Teaching Staff
The Nature of Tempo School and its Philosophy
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