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Show GENERAL SUGGESTIONS TO THE INSTRUCTOR 57 stance, will increase the vocabulary of the speaker, will enable him to say a thing and make it mean exactly what he designs it should, will give him power to differentiate his ideas-to say what develop within him the ability to feel and move others to feel also--in short, it will give life, interest, energy, variety, and breadth of vision to him. Mind-Body. Keep in mind that the body-and particularly the eye-must show the teacher whether or not the pupil is feeling, thinking, and visualizing while speaking; that mind is body in controlled, willed action; the fundamental process of all speech behavior must be manifest, first, through the will to react to the printed page; second, through the emotional reaction to the will stimuli; third, by the mental stimulation to· emotional reaction; and fourth, communication through action and voice. (See Part I, Chapter 2.) There are many ways of criticizing the student. Criticism. Notes may be taken, and criticism and discussion of all the exer cises given at the end of the class; or the suggestions may be discussed with the student as soon as he has finished. Vocal phe nomena are so complex and intangible that the teacher is a marvel indeed, who can remember, without putting down during the pupils' recitation, a few simple jottings of the suggestions and helps which he wishes to give the pupil. It is a good plan to keep an index card of each member of the class; on which the criticisms of the day may be noted, and improvements may be recorded for ref he means erence. and to mean what he says, will This will enable the teacher to have a more development and progress of the student, definite idea thing not easy to remember. good feeling between teacher and pupil, the ideal method is to give criticism at the time of delivery, interrupting the pupil and having him re of the a When there is absolute freedom and peat, with a more definite or a different aim. This will encourage more and better practice outside the classroom. But most classes are so crowded that time will not permit of such method, even if the student were not embarrassed by the procedure. This method of criticism can be followed only when the student has lost his self consciousness and feels at home with both teacher and class. be wiser at least at It may first, to wait until all the students have ap- |
