In her characteristic style, Mrs. Wallace condemns the usual methods of teaching arithmetic and language:—
“Said a mother, ‘Two and two are what?’”
“The boy hesitated.
“‘Surely you know that two and two make four.’
“‘Yes, mama; but I am trying to remember the process.’
“Process, indeed!...
“One day Mary was bending over a tablet writing words on both sides of a straight line, like multiplied numerators and denominators.
“‘What are you at now?’ asked grandma.
“Mary answered with pride, ‘I am diagraming.’
“‘In the name of sense, what’s diagraming?’