Teaching method topic

Teaching methods are best articulated by answering the questions, "What is the purpose of education?" and "What are the best ways of achieving these purposes?". For much of prehistory, educational methods were largely informal, and consisted of children imitating or modelling their behavior on that of their elders, learning through observation and play. In this sense the children are the students, and the elder is the teacher. A teacher creates the course materials to be taught and then... full article at wikipedia