Show I 1 how TO TEACH THE mue ALPHABET at a recent school mee meeting in in boston prof Et berson nerson waldi not ralph waldo waido B brama rama haa has something to lay say of that which ha h had seen of teachings in europe durin duning during ghiB his travels ft ap I 1 he spoke of what he saw in dresden 1 he aeike spoke af of teaching the alphabet of its usually being ein eln regarded as a drudgery which lie he called I 1 a sad mistake ile he cited an nex nax example ample ampie of forty bo boys seven even years old coming cooing to learn their alphabet 1 bet it was taught by a man competent fo for r a college president he commenced by drawing a fish up upon eon lon the blackboard and inquiring of the boys what is that thata one answer was ivas eca ica A fish another it is the drawing of a fish right said the teacher to the lash last they were then required to make a nice sentence about the fish this being denebe then placed before them the letters that make the word they were then required to put the letters together so as to spell jue foe word this was wag done also the making pf af the he letters on their slates states forming the word they were wera next required to draw the picture 61 0 the figh fiAh this was the method of teaching the thi alphabet by no novice but by the best beat learned german sc scholar bolar this method of thoroughness was waa everywhere practiced in teaching a little at a ill ili time eime e and constant repetition the effect of this method baid said he jha was stir surprising how unlike is is this method totham pursued in our primary schools the thil teachers tea 1 chers cherb use na no books in teaching consequently their minds are wholly anthe on the m atter matter of teaching watching in the effect of their teaching upon the children when their interest tired their attention was directed to a new subject and thua thus the th are produced i A |