If we put ourselves in their place, said Dr. Pott, and imagined that we were obliged to acquire a knox: ledge of mathematics, history, and elementary science in Hebrew, we might appreciate this more sympathetically, for they were learning in a language in no way cognate with their own. The speaker. seri ously doubted whether the students were given sufficient time to a simulate their lessons. It was mar vellous how quickly they forgot what they had learned during Sometimes it seemed as if had been pumped into then and, by questions put, pumped out again, leaving as much of a vacuum as there was originally. Or, again, students might be compared a sponges. They tried to absorb all they read in text books, and heard in lectures, but what went in did not closer—next water did with the sponge. Many. studerite only studied Chinese, in a desultory way, because they were compelled to. They were not interested, and surreptitiously smuggled English text books into the class room, and read them when they should be concentrating their minds on Chinese. They were apt to arrive at the
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