Excerpt from Crawford's Language Made Easy: For Schools and Teachers' InstituteThe average time spent by pupils in the public schools of the South does not exceed seven school years. His allotted time in the study of language would scarcely average three school years; all, or nearly all, of which time is spent in the study of language lessons and mother tongue. It is there fore, a common thing to find pupils graduating from the public school course-with practically no knowledge of the English language.The fall off in the language on the part of students, as above described, is due, largely, to an attempt at teaching literature and grammar at the same time and in the same lesson. This fruitless practice is not only Opposed by every known law of the mind, but it is a great injustice to the poor child whose time in school is limited.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.