River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-02-03

life This is great advantage in abstract +binkno II
is, however distinct hndrance in apprecation of cu
ture and art we wish to train children to think
accurately and absractly must train them as the
schools evidently are now training them the drec
ton of verbal imagery IT, however we wish to de-
velop artists poets men of letters and those
with technical skill in the various professions we must
to it that this concrete imagery is not lost for if
this loss takes place will waste and
disaster for
The experiments further showed that those children
who thought in visual terms best able to mem
orze material with visual those who
thought in auditory motor terms best able to
learn material with auditory motor content. This
of course far the application results to
school work is concerned that the which the
child learns must be in way adapted to his idea
tiona type the best results to be accomplished
This, perhaps, is not vital fact with the average
child who has many ways, it may be, in which he
imagine his experience, but there always every
schoolroom numbers of exceptional children who
very slow to get in certain fields and who, neverhe
less far from being mental detectives. To take
illustration, there children who have great
difficulty in learning to read and yet who are often
bright in other school subjects 1t is probable that such
children have not developed the type of verbalvisua
imagery The printed word fails carry it's proper
significance Such child, obviously must be treated
differently from the average individual. In the first
place, he may be helped in his reading by being in
structed to spell and pronounce words. The method
of showing him words and having him grasp them as
visual signs will be hopeless method of procedure in
his case. Further the child may be aided by a sys-
temac attempt to strengthen his verbavisua imagery
There is ample evidence that children be trained
any type imagery and it is the business of educa
that those who defective in essential
type trained this defect
We cannot think for a moment demanding the
of thing from the child whose eyesght is
demand from the child of normal visual acuity
just foolish to expect the child who is defective
in certain deationa type to do the work of normal
child expect the child who is defective in his
visual sensibiy to accomplish the results under
the conditions that the child of normal sensbity
accomplishes.
Another important problem which has been under
taken by psychological laboratory at the university
most advantageous conditions besides
those relating to the ideaonal type under which
tain kinds of school material may be memorized. At
the investigation the psychologist is
confronted the difficulty of selecting the sort of
material for memorzing which will be sufficiently uni
form to tried many children and the child
at various times 1t is quite evident that if the
ordinary materials of the schooroo such the child
has had in his reading geography and history ROOM
this material will not be of the uniformity desired
1t was to avoid difficulty that the psychologist, Eb
binghaus, nearly 25 years tried memory expert
ment which used for material syllables
that is certain syables which could be and
which yet had significance; syllables for example,
like necdozhux. Here have relatively uniform
material that has, the most part little signi
Using this kind of material several thousand school