Lecture on the Best Methods of Teaching the Living Languages: Delivered Before the American Institute, August 24, 1832 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ticknor, George

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Excerpt from Lecture on the Best Methods of Teaching the Living Languages: Delivered Before the American Institute, August 24, 1832

Only a few persons however are able or willing to avail themselves of it. Lf we wish to instruct our children in a foreign language, we find it inconvenient and unwise to send them among strangers, in a strange land to learn it: and, if we undertake to teach them at home, we shall hardly be disposed, like Montaigne's father, to sur round them only with those who speak no other than the one we wish them to acquire. In the vast majority of cases, therefore, we must resort to means somewhat more artificial and indirect; and, while still endeavoring to teach it as a living and a spoken lan guage, use the best method within our power at home.

What, then, is this best method? For this is precisely the question you have done me the honor to propose to me; and as it is entirely plain and practical in its nature and objects, I shall not venture, in the reply I may endeavor to make to it, to go in any respect beyond the limits of my personal experience and observa tion, or wish to say anything which is not as perfectly plain and practical as the question itself.

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