DEMERITS OF HEURISTIC METHOD

1. It demands extraordinary labour and hard preparation from the teacher, who is already over-burden.
2. Every teacher may not be able to use sufficiently.
3. The teacher must be gifted.
4. Time consuming method.
5. Every child can not be expected to be a gifted.
6. The immature child has limitations.
7. The students may tempt to consult books and copy from them for the sake of discovery.
8. It may not possible to teach all topics.
9. This methods wants limited number of students for a class.