Miller's Mind training for children Book 3 (of 3): A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Miller's Mind training for children Book 3 (of 3): A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses
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E G B D F
Every Good Boy Deserves Food,
in order to remember the names of the lines of the treble clef; the
letters of the word F A C E are the spaces. In a similar way the lines
of the bass clef can be remembered by the following:
G B D F A
Good Bees Deserve Faithful Attention,
and the spaces by:
A C E G
All Can Eat Goose.
These are simple examples of a principle which can with a little
ingenuity and imagination be applied to any list to be learned.
Elevated Stations
The following illustration shows how a student learned the stations on
the Northwestern elevated road in Chicago, and will give you a further
example of the use of this principle:
I can see Chicago's Oak, divided between Schiller and
Kinzie, Chicago, Oak, Division, Schiller
Sedgewick for luring a bee to Halstead's willow
Sedgewick, Larrabee, Halstead willow,
center, Webster, Fullerton, writes Diversey that
Center, Webster, Fullerton, Wrightwood, Diversey,
Wellington Belmont is the clerk to add three days'
Wellington, Belmont Clark, Addison
grace to Sheridan's bill for Wilson.
Grace, to Sheridan, Buena, Wilson.
Here only the principal words of the story are used as the names to be
remembered. The story simplifies the work of preparing and learning.
Learning the Presidents
A further plan is the following combination of the Reminder Picture
and the Visual Story used to learn the names of the Presidents of
the United States in the order of their term of service. Go over the
following Story Picture, visualize it clearly and then from the picture
repeat the capitalized words in their order. When you can say the list
readily, either forward or backward, go over it again slowly, seeing
the object and speaking the name of the President for which it is a
reminder.
The Picture
See some WASHING hanging on a line. See ADAM looking wonderingly at the
washing. Then see Little JEFF, of "Mutt and Jeff", come up behind Adam.
Jeff turns away, and falls over a MAT. Under it see some MONEY. Pick
up the money and you find an AD. Take the ad and paste on a SHACK. See
a moving VAN back up to the shack, and when the driver jumps down from
his seat you recognize HARRY (a friend of yours by that name). Harry
takes off his TIE and hangs it on a POLE, the pole falls over and hits
the TAILOR who runs up on a FILL, from which he sees a PIER extending
into the water. On the pier is a BIG CANNON from behind which jumps a
LYNX and almost catches JOHN, who runs away, and climbs on a piece of
GRANITE. On the other side of the granite is a pile of HAY, and rolling
off the hay is a GARFISH. There stands an ARTIST with a CLEAVER in his
hand, which he throws at HARRIS (a friend by that name). Harris picks
some CLOVER, and pins it on his MACKINTOSH, and it turns into a large
red ROSE. In the rose he finds some TAFFY, which he throws into a
WILLOW.