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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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Soul Murder in the Schools 227
richly illustrated. It hinders individual free
voyages of discovery of the imagination.
Even good illustrations are often injurious;
but we do not intend to speak at length on this
subject. As a matter of fact children often
feel themselves deceived by illustrations.
The reserve in a story is also a property that
attracts the child. Its pictures are indicated
with a few definite but repeated details. The
imagination is allowed to fill the picture with
colours. The uniformity, the rhythm, and
the symmetry, all qualities belonging to the
folk-lore tale, are for the child extremely ab-
sorbing. They enjoy such repetitions as
" the first, second, and third year " and so on,
quite like the refrain in rhyme and poetry.
But all these obsei*vations lead to a final re-
sult. The present reading-book system is
neither the most attractive for children, nor
does it best supply them with what they want.
Instead of epic smoothness and unity, reading-
books bring a confused mixture of all kinds,
nursery rhymes, religious teaching, poetry,
natural history, and history. Occasionally
there comes a tale or a real poem, standing
apart distinctly from its neighbours, in tone
and in comprehensiveness. Instead of clear
impressions, children get through the reading-

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