Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lesson Studies: To Accompany Canby and Opdycke's Good English
Only through the medium of language does civilized man make others see as he sees and act as he wishes them to act. The sooner the realization of such power comes to the pupil, the better. Rhetoric in the earlier days aimed to accomplish this by discipline plus instruction; rhetoric to-day makes use of instruction plus stimulation. The subject matter is now presented with such application to life that drudgery is lost sight of in eagerness to reach the goal. Welcome, then, to whatever means will help to develop in the mind of. The first year high school pupil the idea that through the medium of words mind acts on mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
