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Show HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION 60 It is always to be read in the body and through the voice. mani ever important from first to last that this cause and effect be a period fest, for only in this way will the reading period become in soul of development in thinking and feeling, in appreciation, are power. Memorization. We would recommend that all material be mem by rotebut practiced until the pupil orized-not learned can to learn how to be mem It is very important do not know what the word means. The students most for orize, lesson assigned-a selection may be divided except where the unity, free from the book. then it may be pre movement, and continuity will not permit; The pared in parts, all the class working on the same paragraphs. assignment should be practiced before a mirror, with a self-criti feelings, ideas, and words become the pupil's making them clear and impressive, the words will be learned long before the selec tion can be delivered well. To the ordinary student the technique cal sense, until the own. If practiced each time for the purpose of the words reading well from a printed page is so difficult that mastered long before the, pupil can embody them. Such mem orization is practice in thinking and feeling; repetition upon repe of are tition enables the student to think and feel more and more. Such experience. Memoriza growth by practice tion done in this manner-though the repetition be the thousandth one-always carries with it greater thinking and feeling possibil means also vicarious a There is too ities, which is indicative of growth and education. much of a tendency nowadays, particularly in college, . to swing memorization. This has come about because the away from all one of merely calling word after word, not learn been has process ing ideas. We contend that only through a thorough understand ing, then by a complete memorization of impulse, emotion, and idea, can the pupil be made free to express himself and thereby impress others. He must get under the author, lift his message, then carry it on to someone else. Dr. Woolbert advances this idea: He has learned to think "Man thinks because he speaks. by self-observation through an analysis of For we must never forget the important thinking. is quite as much the effect as it is the cause oj fact that thought his own . .. |
