Moving Picture Age (1920) . The beginning of the end of one life cycle. The trees are bowingtoward their graves and the ferns are withering. possibility that we may be be able to suggest a first aid to the baffledpedagogue. In imparting information, all instruction depends for its initialsuccess upon the curiosity of the student. When that has beenaroused his interest will have been obtained, and the process oflearning legitimately begun. The process is made permanent whenthe student advances to researches of his own and, by adding to theparticular piece of information he has received, builds
Moving Picture Age (1920) . The beginning of the end of one life cycle. The trees are bowingtoward their graves and the ferns are withering. possibility that we may be be able to suggest a first aid to the baffledpedagogue. In imparting information, all instruction depends for its initialsuccess upon the curiosity of the student. When that has beenaroused his interest will have been obtained, and the process oflearning legitimately begun. The process is made permanent whenthe student advances to researches of his own and, by adding to theparticular piece of information he has received, builds upon it from. Decay progresses, as noted in the tree trunk in the center of the pic-ture and in the surrounding vegetation. The life cycle com,pleted. The vegetation is being buried in themarsh waters to be transformed into layers of coal. various sources and so converts it into solid knowledge. The psy-chological process begins with curiosity aroiised either by the in-structors or the text-books suggestion of an alluring prospect whichhas its root in some common knowledge. An example of the awak-ening of curiosity in a normal way may be seen in the method ofa N€w York public school instructor who, during a story-tellingperiod, began to speak of common soap and soon had her classfascinated with the tale of how soap is made. There is nothingnew in the method employed; but the subject selected revealed aninstructor alive to the pedagogic material inherent in the commonest 16 MOVING PICTURE AGE March, 1920 articles of our daily existence. This, then, is the starting point ofall successful teaching:
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