Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — Too Strenuous Plan of Teaching. [ARTICLE]

Too Strenuous Plan of Teaching.

“Once upon a time, many years ago,” says the Western School Journal, “this editor visited a school in which the teacher in the grammar class tried to illustrate every verb by appropriate actions. Thus the verb run was pictured In a scamper around the schoolroom; the verb strike took form on a boy’s back. ‘But,’ remarked the visitor, ‘what are you going to do with the verb lie (to tell an untruth)? You surely wouldn’t ask the children to lie, and when the verb howl is in the lesson would you bid them howl?’ She had never thought of that, but the absurdity of her method seemed visible to her. We hope so.”