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Show CHAPTER X GENERAL INTERPRETATION When the high heart we magnify And the sure vision celebrate, And worship greatness Ourselves are great. passing by, -JOHN DRINKWATER. "The elements, it must be understood, are merely parts of a great perfect unity, much together to make must be no lines to there as we put together a picture puzzle, only a perfect whole. make show where the parts are [oined, but we must but always in the Nothing is to be left out, nothing fully learned, a whole, which we must put should be held to every step all the process of learning. Students we have considered along. All the steps are in evidence only in the laboratory gets only one thing at a time much as the chemist there is only gas out the hydrogen from the oxygen, discovers that way unless these elements arate elements, are have sep put together again-and you but no water."-WINANS. Mental- Technique Mastered. All the steps, all the ways and the technique-psychologically developed technique should have been unfolded by the aims which have been practiced means, all chapters. The "ends" needed to enable should be the reader to translate the printed page into real life the mastered pupil now, by thoroughly understood and somewhat as outlined in the former read perfect his skill through practice, until his be able to ing develops into an art; the student should, therefore, some confidence, without handle the dead letter with some ease, and he needs to he should have disturbing self-consciousness, or embarrassment; in brief, his read gained complete or partially complete abandon; and impres "clear is ing should be at least, effective, because it sive." at will, Having conquered his faculties so that he may use them the student may now enter upon the real field of reading. and means-the steps-can now be forgotten, unless The ways pupils show by their reading that they have not the technique to handle some special piece of literature; then it will be necessary 120 |
