Aldine First Language Book: A Manual for Teachers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Spaulding, Frank E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330631021 ISBN 13: 9781330631027

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Aldine First Language Book: A Manual for Teachers

A traveler crossing a plain in India saw at a distance a slave who was busy drawing a bucket from a well. The traveler approached the well, hoping to get a drink. On reaching it he saw, to his surprise, that the bucket came to the top of the well empty. Again and again the Slave let down the bucket, and ever it came to the top empty.

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Excerpt from Aldine First Language Book: A Manual for Teachers

A traveler crossing a plain in India saw at a distance a slave who was busy drawing a bucket from a well. The traveler approached the well, hoping to get a drink. On reaching it he saw, to his surprise, that the bucket came to the top of the well empty. Again and again the slave let down the bucket, and ever it came to the top empty.

"Hold!" cried the traveler at length. "Do you not see that the well is empty? In order to get water from the well, you must either fill it from the reservoirs on the hills or dig down till you reach the natural springs in the earth."

This little story well symbolizes much that is called language work - routine efforts to draw from the shallow surface of the child's mind full measures of thought and feeling, efforts that we often thoughtlessly allow to become ends in themselves. Like the slave with his bucket, we go through the motions; we draw from our pupils words, sentences, paragraphs, and punctuation marks, but they are empty. And they will continue to be as empty as the slave's bucket until we change our procedure.

But the story docs more than symbolize our futile efforts; it suggests to us, as did the traveler to the slave, what we must do if we would see our efforts crowned with success.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330631021
• ISBN 13: 9781330631027
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
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