You Can Reverse the Process
Test the availability of these visual impressions that you have made by starting with the picture of the Piano and follow each picture carefully back to the House. Thus, Piano—Stove—School—Lamp—etc.
You now have a series of twenty unassociated words so impressed upon your mind that you can say them forward or backward. You can as easily begin in the middle and go either way, or you can think of any word at random and tell which word precedes it or follows it in the list.
Strong visual impressions properly associated can be recalled at will.
It has taken some time to make and photograph these pictures, practice will soon make the process so easy and natural that the same result can be accomplished in a few seconds. It is not unusual for children, after a little practice, to take a list of twenty words and visualize them in one careful reading, so that they can recall them in any order desired. Practice will do the same for all regardless of how difficult they may find the idea at first. All have the faculties, awaken them and make them serve.
The important thing is not that the child has easily learned a list of words which he can repeat forward or backward, but the fact that he has experienced the memory value of a definite mental operation. The learning of the list is merely the exercise through which the process of visualization is applied to the memory. The child may possess the knowledge, but practice is the only way to make it most useful. This same kind of exercise should be continued and will later lead to many practical applications.