They often go over the
lessons hurriedly and carelessly and come to class with confused ideas.
Consequently when the pupils attempt to recite, there is, if anything, an
additional confusion of ideas, and the recitation proves a failure.
Carelessness in the preparation of daily recitations, negligence in asking
for additional explanations, and inattention to the explanations that are
given, inevitably cause failure when tests or examinations are called for.
EXERCISES
1. Name five subjects about which you know so little that it would be
useless to attempt an explanation.
2. Name five about which you know something, but not enough to give clear
explanations of them.
3. Name four about which you know but little, but concerning which you
feel sure that you can obtain information.
4. Name six that you think you clearly understand. Report orally on one of
them.
+Theme LXXXIV.+--_Write out an explanation of one of the subjects named in
number four of the preceding exercise._
(Read your theme and criticise it as to clearness. In listening to the
themes read by other members of the class consider them as to clearness.
Call for further explanation of any part not perfectly clear to you.)
+155. Selection of Facts--Unity.+--After we have been given a subject for
explanation or have chosen one for ourselves, we must decide concerning
the facts to be presented. In some kinds of exposition this selection is
rather difficult.
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