The American Normal Readers Vol 1

Excerpt from The American Normal Readers, Vol. 1: Prepared Under the Direction and With the Approval of a Supervisor of Catholic Schools The primitive arts and crafts are introduced in order to teach in symbolic form the community of human interests, individual rights and obligations, and many rules and principles which underlie personal conduct. The pedagogical value of fable and folklore in their effect upon the imagination has been fully recognized. They have a mythological background, representing the childhood of mankind, and for this reason they never fail to appeal to children. If we are wise in our choice and application, they are excellent tools for our purpose. The laws of association have been faithfully followed. Ideas and their symbols are carefully associated by comparison, by contrast, by relation of time or of place. In this way the child learns to think in an orderly manner, he is able to make true mental pictures, and by sufficient repetition to recall them at will, to remember. Frequent use is made of analogy, and words which have both a literal and a figurative sense are used literally first, so that a clear idea may be formed, and so that figurative language may really mean. Something to the child. If teachers will sow these little seeds carefully now in the imaginative years of childhood, the mind will become more and more appreciative of the best things in literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.