School and Home Education, Vol. 33: September, 1913 to June, 1914 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from School and Home Education, Vol. 33: September, 1913 to June, 1914

We see, then, that this is a wonderful realm of expression of the conceptions of the human mind. By its peculiar sym holism of the known for the unknown, the seen for the unseen, great secrets of nature are unlocked, great forces over come, great laws interpreted in the lang uage of common men. But to speak this speech, to think in terms of its vocabulary, requires just that mastery of every detail by which the content of em bols and their related uses with other symbols in expressing thought may be infallibly known and understood. And this is the substance of mastery in the case of any language.

In the high school we call mathematics by distinct names, as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry. It would be greatly to our advantage if we could get into the habit of thinking of these as representing various aspects of the one general subject. It is much the same with our study of English in the ele mentary stages. Too often we think of reading, spelling, writing and composi tion as entirely distinct subjects to be studied and taught in an entirely unre lated manner. As a matter of fact they, each and all, belong to the one indivisi ble process. Whether we read or write we also spell; we write in order to compose, and we compose in order to read or be read.

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