Talks on Teaching Literature

Name: Talks on Teaching Literature
Author: Bates, Arlo

Bates, Arlo

Literature -- Study and teaching

Superstition, about witch, 173;
      about quicken tree, 168.

    Synthesis _vs._ analysis, 21.


    Teacher asks too much, 41-46;
      ignores strain on pupil, 80;
      must have clear ideas, 27, 49, 149;
      must take things as they are, 39;
      not clear as to object, 49;
      not equal to demands, 53-60;
      obliged to do work of home, 227;
      to lead, not to drive, 58.

    Teaching, helping to extend ideas, 210;
      method in, 136, 224.

    Teaching of literature, aim of, 11-27, 69-70, 236;
      cannot be done by rule, 86, 138;
      choice of selections in, 90-92;
      confused methods, 6;
      deals with emotion, 2;
      educational, 3, 74, 109-120;
      examinational, 3, 74, 121-135;
      fine passages taken up in, 80;
      importance of reading aloud in, 61;
      inspirational, 49, 74, 88-95, 117;
      must be adapted to average mind, 89;
      preliminary, 74-87;
      uncertainty in, 1-10;
      written work in, 126.

    Technique, instruction in. _See_ Workmanship, literary.

    Tennyson, 49;
      _Elaine_, 37;
      _Merlin and Vivian_, 170;
      _Princess_, 37;
      _Revenge_, 26, 215.

    Text, 136;
      model, 137.

    Thoroughness, 119.

    Titian, 53, 208.

    Translating, effect of, 218.

    _Treasure Island_, study of, 152-159.

    Truth in literature, 112-114.


    _Vicar of Wakefield_, 44, 56, 152.

    Vocabulary, growth of, 209;
      Miss Litchfield's view, 77;
      of Burke's _Speech_, 139;
      of _Ivanhoe_, 160, 162;
      of _Macbeth_, 165-171;
      of prose, 137;
      of _Sir Roger de Coverley_, 147;
      of _Treasure Island_, 153, 155;
      study of, 76-79, 125, 193;
      to be learned first, 74, 110, n.;
      to be learned from reference-books, 76.


    Washington, George, 22.

    Words, value of, 16.

    Word-values, 17.

    Wordsworth, 49, 239;
      _Lesson for Fathers_, 195.

    Workmanship, literary, 207-221.

    Written work, 126-130;
      comparison in, 190;
      description in, 127;
      in study of _Macbeth_, 187-191;
      supreme test in, 129.


                          The Riverside Press

          _Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co._

                     _Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._




TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:


Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original.

The following corrections have been made to the original text:

    Page 165: XIII[original has "XII"]

    Page 174: gnaw till the ship springs a leak[original has
    "aleak"]

    Page 245, under "Examinations": best prepared for by broad
    teaching, 122;[original has a comma]

    Page 247: Teaching of literature, aim of, 11-27,
    69-70,[original has a semi-colon] 236






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Talks on Teaching Literature

Bates, Arlo

Literature -- Study and teaching

Superstition, about witch, 173;
      about quicken tree, 168.

    Synthesis _vs._ analysis, 21.


    Teacher asks too much, 41-46;
      ignores strain on pupil, 80;
      must have clear ideas, 27, 49, 149;
      must take things as they are, 39;
      not clear as to object, 49;
      not equal to demands, 53-60;
      obliged to do work of home, 227;
      to lead, not to drive, 58.

    Teaching, helping to extend ideas, 210;
      method in, 136, 224.

    Teaching of literature, aim of, 11-27, 69-70, 236;
      cannot be done by rule, 86, 138;
      choice of selections in, 90-92;
      confused methods, 6;
      deals with emotion, 2;
      educational, 3, 74, 109-120;
      examinational, 3, 74, 121-135;
      fine passages taken up in, 80;
      importance of reading aloud in, 61;
      inspirational, 49, 74, 88-95, 117;
      must be adapted to average mind, 89;
      preliminary, 74-87;
      uncertainty in, 1-10;
      written work in, 126.

    Technique, instruction in. _See_ Workmanship, literary.

    Tennyson, 49;
      _Elaine_, 37;
      _Merlin and Vivian_, 170;
      _Princess_, 37;
      _Revenge_, 26, 215.

    Text, 136;
      model, 137.

    Thoroughness, 119.

    Titian, 53, 208.

    Translating, effect of, 218.

    _Treasure Island_, study of, 152-159.

    Truth in literature, 112-114.


    _Vicar of Wakefield_, 44, 56, 152.

    Vocabulary, growth of, 209;
      Miss Litchfield's view, 77;
      of Burke's _Speech_, 139;
      of _Ivanhoe_, 160, 162;
      of _Macbeth_, 165-171;
      of prose, 137;
      of _Sir Roger de Coverley_, 147;
      of _Treasure Island_, 153, 155;
      study of, 76-79, 125, 193;
      to be learned first, 74, 110, n.;
      to be learned from reference-books, 76.


    Washington, George, 22.

    Words, value of, 16.

    Word-values, 17.

    Wordsworth, 49, 239;
      _Lesson for Fathers_, 195.

    Workmanship, literary, 207-221.

    Written work, 126-130;
      comparison in, 190;
      description in, 127;
      in study of _Macbeth_, 187-191;
      supreme test in, 129.


                          The Riverside Press

          _Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co._

                     _Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._




TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:


Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original.

The following corrections have been made to the original text:

    Page 165: XIII[original has "XII"]

    Page 174: gnaw till the ship springs a leak[original has
    "aleak"]

    Page 245, under "Examinations": best prepared for by broad
    teaching, 122;[original has a comma]

    Page 247: Teaching of literature, aim of, 11-27,
    69-70,[original has a semi-colon] 236






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