Interest
It has been well said that “interest is nine-tenths of education.” This is true in teaching spelling. Any means which will arouse interest in mastering words is likely to be effective. So far as our forefathers succeeded in securing results in this subject they did so by the interest in the old-fashioned “spelling bee.” Spelling matches of various sorts are desirable for creating interest. The review lists and phonetic lists will be found admirable for this purpose. It should be remembered, however, that this is testing what is already learned and is not teaching something new.