The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-27
!; VALUE OF READING.
n, Lecture on How REGULATIONS
Should Be Conducted
EyE FULL BENEFIT TO STUDENT
ltsieasor w. w. Barnett, To-
her With Criticism ON Present
uethOds in Common Use.

n TEXAS. June 24.-The following lee
% The Disciplinary Value OF Read
AnA Lysature" was delivered in the
Ehod Of methods by Professor w.
Y hrnti d Houston:
] mike tie assertion that reading reci-
sai y frequently conducted have NO
lIllriry value. Let US picture read
Rotation that takes place not only
lEn but throughout our country where
EpleG has not been specially studied.
aa now 10 the Intermediate grades. The
called. The pupils stand, or SIT
aar desks during the period. The
4sf calls for book. Here let me say
70 ought not to have u book in hand
'ae reading is being done. We can
Rii whether the pupil expresses the
~ or whether We get it from follow
" oook instead of the reader. The
~ who studies the lesson needs no
gaeh lae recitation begins. The rexL
nave the words at the beginning
esson spelled and defined. This is
asss auss the words are not defined,
an,eipns given are only synonyms.
Ma nave said before. the words are
N.Y. aug ought to be learned from
IA ~ ine sentences. Words must be
H. tae setting. Now begins the
sonn reads and | call 'or crlti-
nut s H. one says. He left out the
~ ~ and Another says: HE aid
~ ~ voice fall at the period" An
n ,r ~ SAID that for what Mary
un,~ Nn not pronounce the words;
Ia ~ word and spells 1t out. after
VA nscher lets some one pronounce
Y ~ rue class reads around several
IA, aen they are dismissed.
a Mas Mas ago. Horace Mann. IN lee
M, c,ssachusetts. said to he teachers
U ioss 'e something similar TO what
kdeS ~ when he declared: II never
Il guy Out common school until
rsyss OLD and up 10 that time l
Saehma heard question asked, either
WI W scholar respecting the mean.
ID Rally Rally or a sentence in a reading
d sauing was the work Of the or
Eas,iyse ech only--the rejecting and
h,nt !. powers being all the While as
| 10 mos s 'he Dead sea, The exers ises
Iii mas mas signifcancy than the chatter
n ssspies ca the cawing OF ravens I;
III thon No part of the school instruc-
! I'm , ~, uays TO illustrate and sxem-
M lsn v"er and copiousness o. the
lt.tplo,1hauage and out OF its flexible.
u ths words, to make wings on
" ma m'nd could go abroad through
|drtara, aeDth and distance, exploring
~sss.ulhayigating worlds :"
hlne vi words. Horace Mann describes
Ihs n iorm was sacrificed to con
|.sithons,, hoois of things were eorsid-
n IN. any consideration Of the
N nn ~. shadow must not ne taken
Eshon, slahce. And we today can fnd
~ NJ our land such Journalism as
Asah describes.
Inih,. 4 teacher make out d get
~ a. reports while the class rad
sasd.ca,,,na l was not reading. 1t was
'thsi " from this Journalism, 4 in
4 a. Yln teacher and pupil must
ndais session.. In the past 'in our in
IN schools arithmetic WAS crownca
time 4. despotic sway. Twice as
1 has ~ sIven to arithmetic. most Of
adinr ~ practical value, us its given
III n ue TOOL to be used in getting
|uxhl All. iihes, In my first teaching
, shall ~ was the only th;ng.
nAny Me lesson be studied? There
aenteraays' Train pupils TO take up
lom cia ana get Its meaning. Then
|enseEes ,heir books and try to state
% moi ~, ne thought. II yen ind
y You make aaHe that close study II the
hat VII, aieslre, write questions on the
HI them .aase them TO study. Some
This IL write questions on the les
the nun,, most valuable exercise. 1t
A power to write q good