Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER n INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES Among CHILDREN IN A HOME I Concrete Instances.--A mother has two sons, V. and S., aged seven and eleven respectively. She is teaching them both at home. The elevenyear-old boy has completed the public school course in reading. He has made good progress in his spelling, geography and language. He likes to solve the problems in his arithmetic. His mother says that "ho would rather be with his books than with the boys in their plays. S. takesreal pleasure in learning any lesson I assign him. He likes his reading and arithmetic best, but he has done well in all his studies. I have no difficulty in teaching him almost anything I think he ought to learn." But it is quite different with the seven-yearold boy. The 'mother began teaching him his letters when he was in his fourth year. She started him in his number work at the same time. She has been teaching him for nearly three years now and she reports that she is discouraged over the progress he has made. He reads poorly; he cannot spell but a very few words correctly; his writing is not much better than scribbling, and he does not yet know how to perform any of the arithmetical operations with readiness or accuracy. The mother says that when S. was the age of the younger boy he was "three times as good in every study as V. is. S. always liked to have me teach him and V. does not like anything so far as I can tell. He is the brightest boy in many ways in the neighborhood; he is easily the leader among the boys of his age. But he will not study. He is always trying to get out of learning his lessons. He makes up all sorts of excuses to go on errands or to play with the boys. He promises me that he will come in and learn his lessons if I let him play for a half hour when he ought ...
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