Excerpt from The Public School English Composition Material of Composition. Composition is primarily a training in thought - in the acquisition of ideas and their orderly and effective arrangement. It is the child's thought that must be trained. Nature's wisdom lives in his instinctive interests and aptitudes, and these determine the material to be presented. What the child rejects or cannot handle must be put aside; what he sees and does in the daily round of life - that interests him because it is near, familiar, and his ...
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Excerpt from The Public School English Composition Material of Composition. Composition is primarily a training in thought - in the acquisition of ideas and their orderly and effective arrangement. It is the child's thought that must be trained. Nature's wisdom lives in his instinctive interests and aptitudes, and these determine the material to be presented. What the child rejects or cannot handle must be put aside; what he sees and does in the daily round of life - that interests him because it is near, familiar, and his own - that is the starting - point. Outside his own world the dominant mental interest of the child is the story, especially the story that deals with animals, with primitive life, and is touched with wonder. This narrative interest will naturally progress through the fairy tale, the fable, the legend, historical incident, and biography. As the child grows, his growing powers of observation, analysis, and reasoning will permit and call for the varied material offered by nature, human and animal industry, persons, industrial processes, qualities of men and things, and the general questions discussed whenever his schoolmates or his elders gather together. This material - most of it - must be given 'the pupil; but he must think it over, and possess it; and the teacher must assure his possession of it by requiring discussion, topical outlines, and reproduction of its content. This material must be interesting - No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. It must be presented In small units - in units to ensure that essential of good teaching lesson unity, and in small units to suit the child's capacity. This material must have a sequence, a progressive develop ment of theme. Adding knowledge where something already is known means rational and permanent growth. Other studies, particularly Literature, History, and Nature Study, will afford good material as well; for Composition is not merely a branch of English, it is a function of mind. Initiative and Personality. More than any other school subject Composition calls for the child's own power of doing, his own mental initiative. The process of composition should be interest in the material, made intelligent by discussion, turning to expression. Thought that interests the child has dynamic power to stimulate his own mental activity. When he rewrites a story that he likes he will reproduce his own View of it, and bring his imagination into play. And imagination should be exercised in the school - room as one of the most precious mental gifts. Whatever talent the child has for drawing will respond to the call made upon him to illustrate the story. The play instinct, the instinct of make-believe a vast source of delight and mental growth in children can be turned to account, at every stage of the study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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