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Hfl S. PRELL Gdl Mechanical Engineer. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. TPREFACE. tIHE MODEL WORD-BOOK SERIES. oohbisiino of i -J iH.A ji NO. 1. MODEL DEFINER, FOR BEGINNERS. NO. 2. MODEL ETYMOLOGT, UNIFORM WITH NO. 1. The importance of Wobds cannot be over-estimated. Education depends on a knowledge of the meaning and application of Wobds. Knowledge can be imparted and receiyed onlj by the medium of WOBDS, correctly used and properly understood. The basis of a good education must be laid with wobds, well chosen, properly arranged, and firmly implanted in the mind. From the richness of the English Language, which gives many words to the same meaning, and many and diverse meanings to the same word, the proper use of a word cannot be deduced from its meaning. How, then, is the knowledge of the use of words to be imparted to children? Either by the teacher, or by conversation and reading. By the latter method, the knowledge acquired is limited in extent; and as it is entirely dependent on the power of observation, the impressions received are faint and Hi-defined, and the conclusions arrived at frequently incorrect. No teacher would think of teaching A rithmetic, by simply imparting the Kules, and then leaving to the child their correct application. Yet, the practice of Arithmetic might possibly be left to such teaching, inasmuch as Arithmetic is an exact science based on fixed principles, from which correct reasoning must deduce correct results. But no reasoning can show to the child, who has learned Deduce, to draw, that he must not say, I tried to deduce the horse from the stable; or, Deciduous, falling. The boy deciduous from the window, was killed.
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