Professor A. W. Bickerton, the well-known scientist, confessed during a lecture at the College of Preceptors that he had never succeeded in learning anything "by heart.""
"I have a hopeless memory," he said. I can't even remember the date of the battle of Waterloo. At school I could never remember anything. They caned me for a year, but it made no difference.
"Then one day," he added, "I discovered that when I was interested in a thing I could never forget it. I gave up trying to learn by heart and concentrated on basic principles and the logical sequence of things."
At the conclusion of his lecture on "The value of simple experiments, graphies, and concrete methods in study and teaching," Professor Bickerton said that teaching should be simpler and more interesting. in social study. The miners are among our best customers.
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