Excerpt from Suggestions to Teachers of English in the Secondary Schools
Attention has been directed of late to the lamentable condition of English instruction in the secondary schools. It is discovered not only that English has been neglected for other subjects, but that English is, itself, especially difficult to teach. That English has been neglected is the fault of parents and the general public more than of teachers. In the majority of American homes little or no reading of the English classics obtains; and insistance upon the use of pure English in speaking and writing is left generally to the schools. That English is difficult to teach follows from the ease with which both teacher and pupil may shirk the English lesson. The instructor has a smattering of the subject; the pupil thinks that he knows all about it. Each is prone to contemn what appears to be easy.
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