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Principles may be classified into three major parts:

1. Starting Principles

These involve the nature of the child, his psychological and physiological endowments which make education possible. The most common terms used are reflexes, instinct, capacities, impulses, temperaments and the like. The sole concern of the teacher is not the subject but the child, not knowledge of specialty, but knowledge of the laws and principles of the child’s growth and development.

2. Guiding Principles

These refer to the procedure, methods of instruction or agglomerations of techniques by which the pupil and the teacher may work together toward the accomplishment of the goals or objectives of education. It is the method of learning and not the method of teaching that constitute the real problems of method. The method is the means of encouraging, directing, guiding and stimulating individual or class activities. Therefore, the methods of teaching involve the application of many laws and principles

3. Ending Principles

These refer to the educational aims, goals, objectives, outcomes, purposes or results of the whole educational scheme to which teaching and learning are directed. By the aims of education, we mean the ends toward which educative process is moving. The primary requisite of effective learning is a goal or ending point. In teaching and in learning, one must know his goal or objective.

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Cecille