Greek Lessons: Consisting of Selections from Xenophon's Anabasis, with a Vocabulary, Notes, Directions for the Study of the Grammar, Sentences for Translation Into Greek, and Suggestions for Greek DialoguePotter, Ainsworth, 1873 - 133 pages |
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Page ii - His language is remarkable for sweetness, variety, perspicuity and elegance. Rich, without a superfluity of figures, and smooth without sameness and tedious uniformity. His sentiments are such as might have been expected from the most faithful and judicious of all the disciples of Socrates. They are just, elevated, apposite, and do credit both to his heart and his understanding.
Page 96 - it must be a real and thorough review; that is, it must be again and again repeated. What i choose is this : that every day the task of the preceding day should be reviewed ; at the end of every week, the task of the week ; at the end of every month, the studies of the month ; in addition to which this whole course should be gone over again and again during the vacation.
Page 96 - I will not attempt to anticipate. But I will say confidently, that if the two classical languages were properly taught, there would be no need whatever for ejecting them from the school course, in order to have sufficient time for everything else that need be included therein.
Page 96 - What I choose is this: that every day the task of the preceding day should be reviewed ; at the end of every week, the task of the week ; at the end of every month, the studies of the month; in addition to which, this whole course should be gone over again during the vacations. I can truly say, that, if I have made any progress myself in Greek learning, I owe it to this practice of reviewing.
Page 96 - ... difficulty of fashioning the instruments : of teaching the teachers. If all the improvements in the mode of teaching languages which are already sanctioned by experience, were adopted into our classical schools, we should soon cease to hear of Latin and Greek as studies which must engross the school years, and render impossible any other acquirements. If a boy learnt Greek and Latin on the same principle on which a mere child learns with such ease and rapidity any modern language...