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Show FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE multitude of commentators. Is it the accumulation of knowledge which should be the purpose of our schools, or is it training to be To help do and more complete lives? able to live happier, better, must be translated into living, vibrating this, the printed page can voice, action, and feeling. When this is done, Ideals and fitness women. be a real force in the lives of men and Make the will come only through real or vicarious experience. the high ideals, the printed page vital experience, and because of serve spiritually to noble motives, the great emotions, literature will "leaven the entire lump" of our scholastic disciplines. It will also to intensify serve to give understanding, to broaden, to illumine, the inanimate page any life experience. ideals Just as it is necessary to place good music and good before pupils, so is it as necessary to have our children hear good be reading, good speaking, and good acting. Taste, fitness, may be should time developed through good example. Money and com our all speech arts before spent to bring good examples of munities. Ayres said, "Where there are a hundred good judges of art as music, there is scarcely one good judge of reading." I take possession of that form, under the title of Methods. The teacher must methods, invariably to reproduce that form. decide whether the methods used in teaching interpretation shall be the mechanical following of the Rush technicians or if they will develop readers by natural, psychological, physical reactions to has been discussed in our spontaneous impulses. The first method and need not be taken up here in detail. The preceding chapter, latter method will take greater skill, more originality, and infinitely be taught by rote, with little greater preparation. The former may or no preparation by the teacher. first "Reproduce That Form." Babies satisfy their emotions, and emotional impulses motives mental their then through gesture; and finally are communicated by means of gesture and inflection; definite emotional-mental reactions find their' outlet through gesture, learned to speak inflection, and articulate speech. The child has because he discovered that certain movements and articulate sounds reactions in those who cared for his wants. brought satisfactory Then the child found he could tell others his experiences and feel- |
