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Show 47 GENERAL SUGGESTIONS TO THE INSTRUCTOR - - - be added to the step is a part of the whole, and each step must already developed steps, until the whole is encompassed so that these steps, when mastered by the student, will produce the skill and ability to speak; that one cannot speak well until he has under right relationship, all necessary steps. There can, also, be no good interpretation until the stood and practiced in their Procedure. mastered sufficiently simple steps discussed in these chapters are in of to allow freedom expression, unhampered by the mechanical be should how The them. entirely of terference of the how doing the peda submerged in the what. All the mechanics of reading, gogy of these steps, even the technical names are best never men nigh school with in dealing tioned by the teacher, particularly student who pupils. The theory should be reserved for the collegemind on student's the the subject. Keep is interested in! teaching to give effort the with is who The occupied the end in view; pupil will the from received has page, he printed which to others that a is It so on. and never offend by "yellocution, posing, ranting" me of the needs who definitions, teacher props poor, unprepared him get results. chanics, and all the theoretical crutches to help as well as Relearning. Because of the accumulation-of-facts, the entire read the analysis-methods employed in our public schools, revolutionized. be have to will the necessarily pupil ing purpose of school is to he when child of begins ambition The highest every as he can sit alone, soon as child normal The be able to read. fond parents. pretends to read to the amusement of have been so insistent that they have selves before Some children learned to read enter the schoolroom. Is it not a by them shame that they killed in the school impulse, desire, and activity is the struggle necessary must students through go and that such natural room, to regain this lost freedom and desire? It would have been so easy desire the pupil brought to read to develop the spontaneous joy and teach oral reading; had they to how known ing had our teachers "tail" between silent-read mental his hide to not allowed the pupil ing and writing "legs." which using the aim employed in our public schools, must be to read oral aim the reading of is merely to understand, If you can give, you must have to give understanding to other.s. Instead of |