Excerpt from Language Lessons From Literature, Vol. 1 All children have something to say. This great, wonderful world brings to them each day a host of experiences which demand expression. Life is full of fascinating things to talk about. And to the child's quick imagination the persons and incidents in the great fairy-land of books are real. With them he lives and of them he must talk. Of life in the beautiful world about him and of life in the beautiful world of books the child has much to say. This is the material he works in to gain the power of expression. Teaching this art of expression to a class of boys and girls is not teaching them to express the thoughts and feelings they should have when they shall be men and women; but it is teaching them to express the thoughts and feelings they have now. Made-up thoughts give but an empty, hol low sound; natural, spontaneous thoughts ring full of throbbing life. To keep close to the heart of the child and to encourage the expression of his own vital thoughts and feelings is real language teaching. 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.