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Show HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION 50 the text; it is not necessary to study more of the historical setting the author than will make the text clear; more of the biography of the author. than is demanded for the students' understanding. Let to clear up of Be own course, in his sure, tell his own way. story, but never hazy, misunderstood, or not comprehended, Do not pre take precious class time for anything unnecessary. can tell in a mo teacher suppose your pupils' ignorance. Any good the reader, by the ment whether or not the idea is comprehended by some under of credit the students having way he reads. Give your notes of the all their by enjoyment standing, and don't hamper all that is learned commentators. Don't misunderstand. Where authors pre is necessary to find out the facts. suppose our knowledge, it important to know sufficient of the graphical, geographical, historical It is philological, psychological, bio background to understand the text. of art, his Browning, for instance, demands an understanding able to read the be to order in tory, science, and most other facts, should of teacher the interpretation author understandingly. But in often so is as done, end of reading, not make such study the under with toward reading stead of the necessary preparation that the pupil have a clear standing. For instance, it is essential France in order to read picture of the northwest coast of that the reader well Browning's "Herve Riel." It will be requisite more he Clive-the knows, the richer have some knowledge of Lord "Lord Clive"; and so on; the will be his reading of Browning's our hearers will carry and more we more we bring to a reading the mental away. Many instructors pick to pieces every out of our classics; precious time word, until the very life is taken Denote and Connote. and micro is wasted; and worst I the pupil is given only fragments was a' collection literature that details until one would think scopic glass and classified. taking them Literature is art, not science. Picking of mind the pupil. the them in from the context always enlarges was school reading Longfellow's A certain class in a junior high of microbes to be put under the magnifying out words and The teacher took twenty minutes to denote the word returned to the reading of this line they When the "Excelsior." falchion. pupils |
