Poems For Memorizing COMPILED BY ALICE ROSE POWER WITH INTRODUCTION BY PROF. ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY FOR SALE BY THE WHITAKER & RAY CO. SAN FRANCISCO INTRODUCTION. This collection of poems for memorizing should prove very useful, not only to teachers in San Francisco, but throughout the United States as well. The selection has been carefully made with a view both to literary content and to suitability to children of the different grades, and the gathering together of all these poems in one volume cannot fail to be of great service to teachers. Selections for memorizing should be used in every public school. It is well worth a child's time to come to know many passages from the best literature. In memorizing them and rendering them properly, a training in feeling and appreciation and a refinement of the emotions is involved which is of great importance in education. They represent in part the culture side of public school work, as distinct from the fact or information side. This culture side of public school training is an element which should not be neglected by any teacher, and a judicious use of selections from the best literature will contribute much toward awakening an appreciation of what is beautiful and noble, and fixing a permanent interest in good literature. If this can be done, it will prove of greater lasting value than many of the facts upon which so much emphasis is placed. |
