Show Learning Darning to Talk English I There are arc two things that homes teach better or worse orse than the s Schools The first is morality the second correct speech If the 4 ild has headed for a reform farm under the mismanagement of his p parents rents a 3 teacher can sel seldom olD stop top hi him If English is not spoken 1 1 Correctly ly 1 in the homes an individual will WIl persist lD in his faults to his I crave in of an average education I j Speech is a habit like morality It takes energy and lots of it I to tb replace a bad habit with a good one An Eastern schoolmaster i recognizes cognizes the powers of habit in forming speech I L Instead of teaching the English language as a byproduct of learning book and grammar he ho goes at it on the ground that speech is is more important than the written word and that this is a task that can be mastered only by practice I Ii j A child or an adult may learn the rule for the agreement of the j its subject and yet never find out that Ih he dont is an incorrect form Bernard M. M Sheridan sup superintendent of the Lawrence Massachusetts Massachusetts Massa Massa- schools has the children repeat He in sentences as as s fas fast as they can for five or ten minutes until they are able to right form by the sound of it I r It is is- is isar far ar easier to learn leam to write good English than it is to speak it m Teaching leaching methods have been improved along that line at the sacrifice e of all language work After decades of compulsory education education tion tion thousands of persons are absolutely deaf to the r rf f of the l language but they are not at all deaf to other of ex ex- stence They value diamonds an and will pay much money for them and then ihen extol their beads in imperfect grammar r People are always more willing to spend their money than their energy for any purpose purpose millions millions for autos but not one cent for a vocabulary good y 1 i 1 i Hail Haile I then then the to Sheridan of Lawrence Massachusetts He He h has s I Ii I tackled tackled Ameri Americas America's as a's biggest educational problem May his hs f followers increase increase i y T if 6 i I a p. p 4 I r 1 u 1 7 tri ll it |