A FAILURE,
A precise teacher, who used foolishly to insist upon answere being given in the words of the text-book, had great trouble when he succeeded an eccentric but intelligent teacher in Wherethis. He used to make his pupils repeat conversations from the text-books — verbatim ; yet when the inspector made his annual examination the following catastrophe happened : — Inspector : Really, Mr Blank, you must get the pupils out of the stupid habit of quoting word for word from their tei-t-books. This sort of machine 1 answering is bad. I have not heard an original answer all day. I hope to hear one before the inspection is finished. Five minutes later — ' Inspector : What did God say when he I found that Adam had eaten the forbidden fruit? Billy Nonmachine : Fetchapleeceman, sir. All the originality hadn't been crushod out of the children.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10199, 3 January 1895, Page 4
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139A FAILURE, Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10199, 3 January 1895, Page 4
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