Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Elements of Language
The following pages are quite unconventional and no doubt differ considerably from the accepted type of grammatical text book.
They put forward, nevertheless, no new theory. They deal with a method rather than with a theory, and their aim is simple and definite - to meet certain practical difficulties which exist in the teaching of language, more especially of Latin, in certain kinds of school.
The present writer has been responsible for a school of moderate size for the last nine years. He has been subject during most of that time to the restrictions of the Board of Education, and has had to deal with perhaps a larger proportion than usual of boys whose school life has been short - nearer three years than four, and who began it without any previous preparation in any language but their own.
He has no desire to dogmatise about other schools and about other people's experience; but, as far as his own goes, there is no question in his mind but that the problem of teaching Latin, and indeed language generally, in the modern State-controlled Secondary School is an utterly different one from what it was when time tables were roughly divided between Classics and Mathematics, and when school-life extended to seventeen or eighteen.
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