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Show Strategy Tea, the pupils In this schoolroom school-room were responding very well to questions of the teacher, thought the visitor, particularly one small boy who snapped his fingers vigorously vigor-ously and loudly as each question was asked.- The teacher admonished admon-ished him several times: "Charles, If you don't stop snapping your fingers, I won't call on you." At the close of. the period, the visitor approached the enthusiastic young pupil and asked him why he had snapped his fingers so often. "Aw," replied the boy. "I'm on to her," referring to the teacher. "When I don't know my lesson, I snap my fingers. She thinks I do, but she won't call on me because I snap my fingers. And I get a good grade for knowing the. lesson." |