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Interpretation in Teaching Creative Teaching: Industrial Arts and Vocational Education

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(1) THE problem with which Dr. Richards deals is one that receives attention in the recent Spens report on secondary schools. The pedantry and formalism of the traditional teaching of grammar and of rhetoric (and to some extent of logic) have done much to kill these subjects as elements in the general curriculum and thus to create a gap which urgentlyneeds filling. Whether or not the exercises of parsing and analysing sentences should be carried out in schools, it is clearly necessary that the art of comprehending and discussing meanings should be acquired in thecourse of education.

Interpretation in Teaching

By Dr. I. A. Richards. Pp. xxii+420. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 18s. net.

Creative Teaching: Industrial Arts and Vocational Education

By Dr. F. Theodore Struck. Pp. xxv+623. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1938). 17s. 6d. net.

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THOULESS, R. Interpretation in Teaching Creative Teaching: Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. Nature 143, 538–539 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143538a0

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