Talk Over What You Head

Nearly forty yoara' expcrience as a teacher has shown how little I know of a subject until I begin to explain it or teach t. Let any young person try the experiment ofgivingin conversation, bricfly and connectedly and in the siinplest language, the ohief points of any book or artiele ho hu read, and he will at once see what I uican The HM that are likely to appuar in tli knowledge that he feit was hisown will no doubt be very surprising. I know of no training superior to tliis in utilizing one'i reading, in streugthening the meniory ;iik in forming habita of clear, conneeted state ment. It will doubtless teach other thing than I have mentioned, whieh the person; who honestly niako the experiment wil find out lor theuiselveii. Chüdren wh read ean be encouraged to give in familia way, the interesting parts of the book they havo read with great advautage lo al concerned. More than one youth l know has laid the foundation of intellectua tastes in a New KnglanJ family, wher hearty encouragement was given to child ren and adults in their atteuipts tq sketc! the leetures they had heard the cvening pre vioua. The same thing was done wil