{"id":4193,"date":"2013-07-13T01:54:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2013-12-01T23:56:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:56:55","slug":"55-teaching-french-to-students-vol-12-on-education-volume-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/12-on-education-volume-12\/55-teaching-french-to-students-vol-12-on-education-volume-12","title":{"rendered":"-55_Teaching-French-to-Students.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nTEACHING FRENCH TO THE STUDENTS<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

How can we improve the children’s spelling?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Generally, for spelling, one must take the help of the eyes. Each
\nword should have its own form<\/span>,
\nwhich the eye remembers. Visual<\/i> memory is more useful than mental memory.
\nOne should read<\/span> a lot \u2013 see,
\nsee, see, on the blackboard, in books, on pictures. <\/span><\/p>\n

And as for style, gender, and grammar too, the best thing is to
\nread, to read a great deal. In this way all this goes into the subconscient. It
\nis the best way to learn.  <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>January 1962 <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 326<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nA<\/font><\/span>BOUT<\/font><\/span> T<\/font><\/span>ESTS<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Tests may be useful in giving you the academic<\/span> worth of a child, but not his real <\/span>worth. <\/span><\/p>\n

As for the real worth of a child, something else is to be found,
\nbut that will be for later on, and will be of a different nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not opposing<\/i>
\nreal<\/span> worth to academic<\/i>
\nworth<\/span>; they can coexist in the same individual, but it is a rather rare
\nphenomenon which produces exceptional types of people. <\/span><\/p>\n

1962<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

(Mother’s comments in the margin of a letter from a teacher about
\nFrench in the school. The students were using work-sheets.)<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the reasons why the children do not make any progress in
\nFrench is that the teachers do not correct them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Very true. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Working with the work-sheets will be effective only if corrections
\nare strict. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Very true. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

I have begun to prepare corrected versions of all the exercises
\nfor the benefit of the teachers and the students. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Very good. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The teachers should read these corrected versions at least once<\/span><\/i>\u2026 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 327<\/span><\/p>\n

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Certainly more than once. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>so that they can become
\naware of their own mistakes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, they need that very much. <\/span><\/p>\n

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It would be good for the child to have this corrected version in
\nhand so that he can compare it with his own work. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, that is very useful. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Merely to underline the mistakes teaches the children nothing. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

True. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I am afraid that the corrected versions I am making for the
\nteachers may remain piously in a drawer. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Heaven forbid! <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

If so, by the end of the year the children will have done a
\nconsiderable amount of work to no purpose. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

You are right. It is the teachers, almost all of them, with only a
\nfew exceptions, who are lazy \u2013 more than the students.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I think I am bothering you with this French. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

No, you are not bothering me, you are quite right. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

It seems to me that so much goodwill is wasted. The goodwill of
\nthe children is wasted because, although the atmosphere in the classes is good,
\nthe work is in-<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i>Page \u2013 228<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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effective and the work that is needed is not done.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yes.  <\/span><\/p>\n

25 December 1962<\/span><\/i>  <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 329<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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