CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I | |
| Educational Value of Literature | [1] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| The Use of Masterpieces as Wholes | [41] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Literary Materials for the Five Upper Grades | [67] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Class-Room Method in Reading | [102] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Method further Discussed and Illustrated | [135] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| The Value of Classics to the Teacher | [176] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| List of Books | [205] |
SPECIAL METHOD OF CLASSICS
CHAPTER I
EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF LITERATURE
The gradual introduction of the choicer products of literature into the grades of the common school has been going on for several years. Bringing the school children face to face with the thoughts of the masters has had often a thrilling effect, and the feeling has spread among teachers that a new door has been opened into what Ruskin calls "The King's Gardens." As we stand at this open portal to the Elysian Fields of literature, there may fall upon us something of the beauty, something even of the solemn stillness, of the arched cathedral with its golden windows. But how inadequate is the Gothic cathedral, or the Greek temple, to symbolize the temple of literature.