A Note on the Teaching of English Language and Literature, with Some Suggestions - Couverture souple
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Now, always remembering that the purpose of study is not, or should not be, the mere acquisition of a number of more or less obscure facts in order to pass an examination, let us consider the usual English course as it is to-day. It is evident that the details of the course will vary at the different educational centres, and there will be still more difference in the teaching itself. Methods of instruction in English are naturally much less fixed than in the case of a subject with a teaching tradition of centuries, such as Latin, or even of the more generally taught sciences such as physics or chemistry. Nevertheless we can, with due reservations, say fairly well what will at present be expected from a student who sits for a degree in English, and what will not be expected from him. Instruction in English literature, and to some extent in the outlines of the history of the language, is generally begun in the secondary schools, but I do not propose to discuss the teaching in these, for there is nothing that can be called a eusual9 course, and, indeed, time could seldom be allowed for much specialization in English, even if this were desirable. It seems to me that the teaching of children to speak and write modern English with ease and correctness, and to appreciate good modern work in which the language presents no difficulty, should in a secondary school be the principal aim. Anything of an antiquarian nature, and especially such things as the memorizing of notes, or the discussion of obscure allusions or variant readings of texts should in any case be avoided. It is far better to encourage the average child to like good modern I do not mean ultramodern poetry and fiction, and to give him a taste for reading which may afford him a Vast amount of pleasure in after-life, than to run the risk of his leaving school with the idea that literature is a boring and d
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