Interest and education : the doctrine of interest and its concrete application / by Charles De Garmo.

  • De Garmo, Charles, 1849-1934.
Date:
1902
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    mastery over its elements. All the mere facts about a poet’s work are as chaff compared with the appreciation of one fine line or fine sentence. Why study a great poet at all after the manner of the dissecting room ? Why not rather seek to make the acquaintance of his living soul and to feel its power ? ” There are things to say about the teaching of literature which this article does not consider, but Mr. Burroughs is right about the futility of searching for an emotion with a scalpel. The exposition of terms by use of definitions, themselves needing to be defined, is usually futile, for it is like an effort to verify equations with unknown quantities. It is better to rely on illustrations. Instead, for example, of defin- ing envy as “ A feeling of uneasiness, mortifica- tion, or discontent excited by the contemplation of another’s superiority, prosperity, or success, accompanied with some degree of enmity or malignity, and often or usually with a desire or an effort to discomfit or mortify the person envied,”1 it is better to ask a few questions, thus: Did you ever hear of an envious man? 1 Century Dictionary.