OCR Text |
Show I.ariilntf by HcarC Wo rather believe In learning by heart, holding that we know nothing In after life so perfectly aa we know tho multiplication table, but wo are certain that the power of learning by heart differ n greatly ns the rango of alght. and that to require the same amount of memory rum each Individual Individ-ual in a class of twenty Is to harsss ten of tbtin uselessly, and expose five Ui a l.lnJ of torture Tho slow ones can ltsin If they give more time and trouble to It That I what It always said, and It la simply not true Menu ory Is perhaps the only power of the mind which Is essentially physical, as physical as eyesight, and there aro a great many loy, ofUn bojs with ex-celltnt ex-celltnt powers, who simply cannot, so to speak, develop the photographic plate. They may acquire the power aftorwarde, aa nitor. for example, oUen do; but they cannot do It as boys, and tbej not only suffer miserably but thy lost much of the total advantage of their education They hate their k because one bit by bit harasses Urn so much The memory can be titivated, and ought to be Certainly, ai the way not to cultivate It Is to ottr-tnx It when It Is obvlo'isly feeble. Tie writer Is speaking In this Instance el what he personally knows for hs 1 teen lads made seriously 111 by the tort to learn flreek choru, which U hlnnrlf could learn aa quickly aa Eiglleh doggerel and say off in an Itn-torsive Itn-torsive manner without understand ing hslf tbe words In them The Spectator. |