Not so Simple.
An incident which occurred at a private school in X illustrates, among" other things, the unwisdom of judging by first im- J prcssioni. A new teacher had just taken ' the girls' class in English grammar. I On the first day she told the class that , she would not give a regular lesson, but .that ! each girl might write down all the slang shs knew and bring that to the next day's lesson. Several girls who had brothers, and the rest who knew other girls' brothers, set these young men tc work. The result was marvellous. When the class was called next day, there was not a girl who could not show two closely-written pages of clang ex- I pressions. The teacher looked at them. "Very good, she said. "Now translate | them into English." The new teacher experienced no trouble j in winning the respect of her class. j
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Otago Witness, Issue 2433, 31 October 1900, Page 69
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Not so Simple.
Otago Witness, Issue 2433, 31 October 1900, Page 69
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