The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . lying almostwholly outside his own vocabulary. One may ask, should spelling books be used at all ? Or,should spelling lists be prepared by the teachers and usedinstead? If all teachers had the necessary power of dis-crimination, unquestionably the better method would befor them to select their own lists exclusively. But theaverage teacher has not the training necessary to do thisdelicate task well; hence it will be necessary to continue to See Leonard P. Ayres, The Spelling
The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . lying almostwholly outside his own vocabulary. One may ask, should spelling books be used at all ? Or,should spelling lists be prepared by the teachers and usedinstead? If all teachers had the necessary power of dis-crimination, unquestionably the better method would befor them to select their own lists exclusively. But theaverage teacher has not the training necessary to do thisdelicate task well; hence it will be necessary to continue to See Leonard P. Ayres, The Spelling Vocabularies of Personal and BusinessLetters. ^ Franklin W. Jones, Concrete Examination of the Material of English Spelling. TRADITIONAL SUBJECTS AND THE NEW EMPHASIS 245 depend on spelling books. The books, however, shouldonly supplement the written spelling exercises, not supplantthem. The teachers must be clear in their own minds onthis point. The best method of presenting words for spelling is incontext, instead of in lists of isolated words. A paragraph, Attempting to learn these:— WhUe misspelling these:—. spectada halo legacy gossamer sluice lurid buoyant linear aggrieve superlative romantic obstinate Fig. 28. — Reproduced from the Elimination Report of the IowaState Teachers Association. stanza, quotation, or letter, for example, may be selectedin the book or placed on the blackboard, with the words tobe learned emphasized in some way — perhaps may then be taken out from the context, carefullyvisualized, written, pronounced correctly with meaningclearly understood, special difficulties pointed out, andstudy directions given. In countries whose languages are purely phonic, spellingis seldom treated as a separate class subject. The Englishlanguage, as Charles B. Gilbert puts it, is a strange medleyof the labors of philologists, pseudo-philologists, ignorantprinters, and equally ignorant writers who have attempted 246 THE RURAL TEACHER AND HIS WORK
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