The Elbert County tribune., 1910-02-04

life This is great advantage in abstract thinking II
s however distinct hndrance appreciation OF cul
ture and art wish train our children IN think
accurately and abstractly must train them as the
schools evidently training them IN the direc
ton OF verbal imagery IT, however we wish to de-
velop artists poets letters and those
with technical skill in the various professions
to 1t that this imagery Ia not lost for
this loss takes place will tremendous waste and
disaster for
The experiments further showed that those children
who thought In visual terms were best able to men,
orze material with visual that those who
thought in auditory motor terms best able to
learn material with auditory motor content This
OF course far application of results ID
school work is concerned that the which the
child learns must be in some way adapted IN bis idea
uona type II the best results to be accomplished
This, perhaps. is fact with the average
child who has many ways, it be. in which he
imagine his experience. but there always every
schoolroom numbers Of exceptional children who are
very slow to get in certain fields and who.
less are far from being mental detectives. To a
illustration are children who have great
difficulty in learning to read yet who are often
bright in other school subjects probable such
children have not developed the tyne of verbavisual
imagery The printed word falls carry its proper
significance Such child. obviously. treated
differently from the Individual. n the arst
place. he may be helped in his reading by being
structed to spell and pronounce words @The method
OF showing him words and having him grasp them
visual signs will be hopeless method of procedure in
his case. Further the child may be aided by sys-
tematc attempt strengthen his verbavisual imagery
There is ample evidence that children trained
in Of imagery and is the business of educa.
tion to that those who defective essential
type are trained to overcome this defect.
We cannot think for Of demanding the
sort Of thing from the child whose eyesght poor
that demand from the child of normal visual acuty
1t is foolish expect the child is defective
in certain ideationa type to do the normal
child 1t is to expect the child who is defective in his
visual sensibility to accomplish the
the same conditions that the child Of sensibity
accomplishes.
Another important problem which has been under
taken by the psychological laboratory university
is to discover the advantageous conditions besides
those relating to the deational type under which
tain kinds of school material may be memorzed At
the outset of such investigation the psychologist is
confronted with the difficulty selecting sort of
material for memorizing which will be sufficiently uni
form to be tried children and the
at various times 1t Is quite evident that If the
ordinary materials of the schooroo the child
has had In his reading. geography history room
that this material will be OF the uniformity desired
1t to avoid this difficulty that psychologist Eb
binghaus. nearly rs tried memory expert
ment, in which he used for material syabes
that Is, certain syabes which could be and
which yet had signIfcance; syllabIes. example,
like necdozhux. Here have relatively uniform
material that has. for the most part little sgnn
canoe
Using this kind Of material several thousand school