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year by year, such revision constituting one of the superinten¬ 
dent’s most important duties. 
Eleventh. More time should be given to the assignment of 
te lesson, showing more in detail what is important, and what is 
less so, and indicating what will be expected in the next lesson. 
There should be more TEACHING and less HEARING OF 
RECITATIONS. 
Twelfth. Pupils should be taught; not subjects. That is, 
teachers should change their point of view in the recitation, in 
which the child and not the subject is the center of effort. 
Thirteenth. The study period should follow the recitation 
period and not precede it. The time to prepare a fresh lesson 
is just after the inspiration of the class recitation and discus¬ 
sion, and not just before the class is called out. We all feel like 
doing a thing immediately after seeing how some one else does 
it. 
By calling the attention of the parents and teachers to the 
elements of this problem, by applying some, not all, of the above 
remedies in the schools of which I have charge, we were enabled 
is one year to reduce the number of retarded children fourteen 
per cent. 
