Directing study; by Miller Harry Lloyd

Author:Miller, Harry Lloyd. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Teaching, Study skills
Publisher: New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Your lover lies slain on the battle-field Across the English moors."

Her lips grew white and her cheek turned pale In a deadly swoon she fell. Naught that was done could restore her And of grief died the fair Isabel.

Eleanor's mother related her experience the day-after. She remarked that Eleanor went to the study-table and began tapping her pencil. When asked what it meant Eleanor replied that she was trying to write a ballad. The mother thought it was a foolish assignment, quite beyond the capacity of her elder daughter, then in college. Eleanor apprised her mother that the teacher had said: "Would you like to write some ballads?" That made a difference. In about forty minutes after starting to write, Eleanor read the ballad as it appears above to her mother. It may be worth while to talk about the particular metre and perhaps use the conventional terms after the pupils have worked into some creative self-expression. Suffice it to say that the bare bones of definitions will assist no one in writing anything.

Of course Eleanor's poem was the best in this class. But the doubting Thomases should be reminded that there is no reason why the standard of achievement and qualities attained by a few individuals should not become the average of the class. That is the meaning of evolution: the individual exception becomes the type of the race. Effective freedom is the ideal toward which we should be striving. Only an infinitesimal fraction of human power has been applied to the task of development. All that is hoped for in the

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