The book Didascalus Patiens a Satire a Medley a Romance was written by author James Harold Edward Crees Here you can read free online of Didascalus Patiens a Satire a Medley a Romance book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Didascalus Patiens a Satire a Medley a Romance a good or bad book?
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But we wish to discover the sound intellects, the re- tentive memories, the boys who grasp what they have learnt, and do not forget it within three weeks. An examination is like a cricket match. Many who perform wonders at the nets cut a poor figure "in the middle. " For- tunately after an examination the rejected can always abuse the umpire, a proceeding which our national pastime frowns upon. From the circumstance that the examina- tion is mainly literary, will follow that the preparation wil...l not be merely oral, as it is in so many Schools. There will be frequent tests of the pupil's knowledge on paper during the School year. From these tests all will 1 W^itness the terrible phrase " sort of" prefixed to a verb, paralleled by the more plebeian " like. " 211 DIDASCALUS PATIENS in some measure acquire a power of getting to essentials, a faculty of expressing concisely and clearly what they know, of giving — such a rare literary phenomenon — a plain answer to a plain question. Power over one's own language will be considerably developed, and Composition will be taught better by this method than by any other.
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