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Show new devices were practiced and "reported "re-ported favorably on regardless of facts," as one may ee who reads Page 251, Eleventh Report of Schools, which condemns these practices. To encourage pupils is laudable, but to tell them they are right when they are wrong, even though we may recognize rec-ognize degrees of wrongnesB in words I as in eggs, is certainly not commend-i commend-i able. The action of educator Sweet-I Sweet-I man in accepting "bad'' for ' bade'' j should be no model for others to fol-I fol-I low, nor for himself to continue, j There have been many like him; hi s j but a type. New York 'l imes. TEACHING PUPILS TO SPELL New York Newspaper Thinks That Possibly There Is an Error in the Present Process. So much has been said and printed about the very independent way pupils in school now spell of course, there were always bad spellers that the reason for it should be known. A dozen or more years ago a new method of teaching spelling was devised de-vised and from one end of our educator-ridden country to the other was j practiced and favorably reported on. It was called "visualiziation," and meant that a mental picture was -certainly impressed on "the child's'' mind by ' merely looking at the word. It never occurred to the visualizers that "the child'' had always looked at the word, and that the drill they proposed to do away with was all there was to the spelling lesson. Many a learned-sounding word has J been of service to expert educators in I this way. Interallis, laboratory, efli-I efli-I cient, to function, to Eense, vital, progress, prog-ress, apperceive, and correlate; 'twas a good game and then began the division divi-sion of w ords like eggs, into right, partly part-ly right, and strictly right, and rating 25 per cent, children 55 per cent., as in Leslie county. Kentucky, and some J places nearer home, where all these |