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Show GENERAL SUGGESTIONS TO THE INSTRUCTOR 49 "A poem is not truly a poem tlntil it is voiced by an accomplished reader, who has adequately assimilated in whom it is born again. ', Reading must supply all the tory, science, philosophy. it, deficiencies of written or printed language. .. the letter." It must' give life to 2 The material to be studied should be selected, first, literature; second, because the teacher Material. because it is worth while it; third, because the student is mentally, emotionally, and' technically prepared to read it orally; fourth, because the selection has an appeal to the pupil in his pre-sent environment and development, and therefore he will enjoy it. The fountain can rise no higher than its source; if the teacher does not love the literature, he cannot get his stu dents to love it. It is not sufficient merely to understand, and be able to pick to pieces or analyze; it must have an emotional ap peal to both teacher and pupil. Biography and Notes. Most students are not in school spe cially for literary study; they desire rather to receive the inspiring, spiritual influence from the heritage of the past, which will uplift and help give purpose and understanding to their lives. The study likes it and therefore can make the students like of the life of an author cannot be calculated to create interest in works; 'it can bur enhance an already aroused interest. Stu dents straightway forget biography as soon as they have answered the questions on the assignment in class. When did Longfellow his awaken an interest in us? When we found a poem which moved found about him even Then we hunted up his life, read all we in re-read, with interest, the bits of biography before his poems we was When our interest sought our reading books. awakened, is out the information because we wanted it. Every student who us. has written touched, moved, or influenced by what a great will instinctively learn something of his personality and experience, while on the other hand, the crowding of knowledge into the stu dent before he wants it, is nothing more than a process of loading man the mind with so much waste material. It is not wise, therefore, to denote people, words, or phrases, un less students show by their reading that they do not understand 2lfiram Corson, Voice and Spiritual Education-Macmillan. |
