| Show 1 CHILDREN vs TECHNICAL 61 GRAMMAR ata ara ar AT a recent meeting of the school wll wil principals sais wais of cincinnati datil the subject jecki afen ofen English of glish gramm grammar ar was as discussed sed bed f H prichard principal of the intermediate schools ali fui relia rella reau a paper on composition and gar grammars Gram i admar marn mann in which he inn vathia ly showed that un under der the best 1 instructors tors children were not learning technical grammar but a jumble of definitions and rules which they were incapable 0 of lf applying to any purpose that ahat prex prix primious previous ioui ious i to the twelfth year pupils had not the maturity nud and hud kreno kreng strength 0 of mind suf sur 4 f mil dil e P vio uio I 1 understand the so called 1 I 1 principles of En english kilah illah grammar I 1 that thab the knowledge gey gel which by definition and und rule was wa being c crammed nep rii ril ed anto linto dh children ildren lidren under twelve y years pars of A age ge was but memorized trumpery tha thel bulk of which retarded mental m development and the teaching of which was a squandering of time that might be put to better lse fuse ise he showed by reading several compositions by pupil OB oki a recent examination that instruction in tieh technical tich grammar was practically Ts useless eless as pupils who had bad been drilled and cram crammed med wl with lh nati predicates cases and conjunctions did not speak or white write teany any beiter better than thim those who lad had lear learned ried the use uee of language by reading alai and writing without grammar drills dir air fr pa P concluded by moving a resolution to dispense with the present forms of method me i thod and ind matter of english gram grammar asi as taught in the schools the views presented were enthusiastically concurred in and approved by many present mr peter lii iff clark dark argued in favor of technical grammar in ahe the right place but admitted that the results in conversation and composition were any anything tIlIng but satisfactory the idea advocated advocat dd by mr prichard is sr in ln accordance with general observation and i is s really to the reflect that practice and not technical principle is the thing to set be fo e the youthful mind cali calit les ties are too strop strong meat for the young belonging rather to the education of elder students |
