Excerpt from Spelling in the Elementary School: An Experimental and Statistical Investigation
Whether perfection in spelling is so desirable or attainable as an ideal of instruction that it should continue to hold its pres ent exalted place in the popular consciousness and in the mind of the professional pedagogue, is another and important question Which will be given some attention later; but that it does hold such place is evidenced not only by such general considerations as have been just mentioned, but by matters of fact easily acces sible to any one sufficiently interested to inquire. The time actually devoted to special instruction in spelling, as given upon daily school programmes, ranges from ten minutes to an hour, the latter being more than one fifth of the available time for instruction, and the spelling lesson is almost invariably one of the staples for home study when such work is required of pupils. The great number of spelling books put forth each year by the publishers of text-books is another Significant index of the time, thought, energy, and money expended in meeting this demand of the schools.
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