Excerpt from The Technique of Teaching Thumb. Enlightened classroom artists - for that is what thousands Of our finest teachers are - welcome every hitherto unused technique but are never slavish in application. It is the purpose Of this and succeeding chapters to present classroom method as practiced in modern elementary schools and to furnish practical devices for discussion, evaluation, and use. The growing teacher capitalizes experience by con structive study of his own work. The one who develops fastest also utilizes the experience Of others. 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.