Exposition and illustration in teaching . .To meet such contingencies a certain amount of verbalpruning is necessary, but above all there ought to be agood deal of intercourse in the way of applying illustra-tions. A teacher in a city school, in giving a lesson onthe Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, madea sketch-plan on the blackboard, with the Russian gunson the right of the board and the formation of hussarsrepresented by two vertical hnes on the left. The classas a whole seemed to understand the state of affairs onthe field, but in the course of discussion it came outthat some of t
Exposition and illustration in teaching . .To meet such contingencies a certain amount of verbalpruning is necessary, but above all there ought to be agood deal of intercourse in the way of applying illustra-tions. A teacher in a city school, in giving a lesson onthe Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, madea sketch-plan on the blackboard, with the Russian gunson the right of the board and the formation of hussarsrepresented by two vertical hnes on the left. The classas a whole seemed to understand the state of affairs onthe field, but in the course of discussion it came outthat some of the boys (the average age of the class was12+) thought a mistake had been made in the position ^ Cf, the Castle misunderstanding, p. 112. 410 EXPOSITION AND ILLUSTRATION IN TEACHING of the hussars. As they were represented, the boysmaintained, they were charging either north or southinstead of eastwards, as they ought to do if they meantto get at the Russian guns. On probing, the teacherdiscovered that the double line had misled the There was a cavalry barracks in the city, and when thetroops passed through the streets, they always went twoabreast because of the traffic. The boys had got it intotheir heads that this two-abreast mode of progressionwas the natural one for cavalry, and that therefore theywould charge in this order. It was a revelation to themthat the charge was made with such a wide front. Allied to this error of carrying over non-essentials isthat of arousing altogether wrong masses of ideas throughsome superficial resemblance. Beginners in landscapepainting are warned against the little cottage on thehillside with its two tiny windows, one on each side of the DANGERS OF ILLUSTRATION 411 door, and the little doorstep, with the resulting resem-blance to a grotesque human face. Not infrequentlyyoung people see a ludicrous aspect of some matter thatto the adult mind appears to be of the most matter-of-fact character. ^ Speaking of babies, said the Sunday-schoo
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