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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: owe to Mr Harris, the old Writing Master at Eton, is, point the knuckle of your fore-finger to the ceiling. A pleasant occasional exercise is to balance a halfpenny on the knuckle of the fore-finger; if it does not slip off till the end of the copy, let it then slip into the writer's pocket.?(See Appendix B.) III. Arithmetic.?Prolonged experience teaches me that explanation of principles in teaching Arithmetic may be easily overdone. I have erred myself in overdoing explanation again and again. Give out the rule ; let them write it out, learn it, and do a number of examples by it. An occasional pithy and pointed explanation of a principle is all very good,'especially when accompanied by some practical illustration. For instance,?a square of ginger-bread or a plate of apples is admirably useful to illustrate the definitions and fundamental rules of vulgar fractions, especially if the "parts into which the unit is divided/' are at the close of the lesson shared amongst the members of the class; but lengthened explanations children cannot follow.? (See Appendix C.) Any account of the Education given at St. Mark's School would be very incomplete without a reference to Music. I will here, then, introduce parenthetically what I have to say. Singing by note is taught as part of the school business toevery boy. All that I said in the " Account of St. Mark's School," published in 1856,1 endorse now. As to the intellectual, moral, and social benefit of the study, I am fortunate in being able to leave to others less prejudiced than myself to say if they think that the experiment has been a success. The College of Eton, in instituting a choir of their own for their chapel services, have done me the honour to take their choristers from St. Mark's, and have endowed the School wit... [ 收起 ]
