The Green Forest tribune., 1910-02-04

life. This is a great advantage in ahs+roo+ bin, 1t 1s however, distinct hndrance in appreciation of cu ture and art If we wish to train our children to tbin accurately and absractIy we must train them as tb schools evidently are training them in the drec ton or verbal imagery If however we wish to de- Velop artists poes of letters inventors and tbosa with technical skill in the various professions we nust see to it that this concrete imagery is not lost for if this loss takes place will mean tremendous oso ona disaster for
 The experiments further showed that those children who thought in visual terms were best able to mem- orlZe material with visual and that those who thought in auditory motor terms were best able to learn material with an auditory content This or course, means as far the application of results to school work is concerned that the material which the child learns must be in way adapted to his idea uonal type, If the best results to be accomplished
 This perhaps, is so vital fact with the average child who has many ways, it may be, in which he imagine his experience but there always in every schoolroom numbers of exceptional children who very slow to get in certain fields and who neverthe less are far from being mental defecves. To take concrete Illustration there children great difficulty in learning to read and yet who are often bright in other school subjects It is probable that children have not developed the type of verbaEvisual imagery. The printed word fails carry it's proper significance. Such child obviously must be treated dlHerently from the average individual In the first place, he may be helped in his reading by being n- structed to spell and pronounce words The method of showing him words and having him grasp them as visual signs will be hopeless method procedure in his case. Further, the child may be aided by sys- ematic attempt to strengthen his verbavisual imagery trdlned in any type of imagery the business of educa- ton to that those who defective an essential type are trained to overcome this defect.
 We cannot think for a moment of demanding the sort of thing from the child eyesight is poor that demand from the child of normal visual acuty It just foolish expect the child is defective in certain ideaonal type to do the work of normal child it is to expect the child who is defective his visual sensbity to accomplish the results under the conditions that the child of sensibty accomplishes
 Another important problem which has been under taken by the psychological laboratory the university is to discover the advantageous conditions besides those relating to the ideatonal type under which tain kinds of school material may be memorized At the outset of such investigation the psychologist is confronted with the difficulty selecting sort of material for memorzing which will be sufficiently uni form to be tried many children and the child at various times It is quite evident that if the ordinary materials of the schooroom such the child has had In his reading, geography and history room, that this material will not be of the uniformity desired It to avoid this difficulty that the psychologist binghaus, nearly 25 ago. tried memory experi- that s certain sylabes which could and which yet had significance; syllables for example, like necdozhux. Here have relatively uniform material that has, for the part little signif
 
 Using this kind of material several thousand school