ERRORS AT EXAMINATIONS

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144197, 13 September 1913, Page 7

ERRORS AT EXAMINATIONS

SOME CURIOUS HOWLERS. “It is the eccentric that interests,” said a secondary school teacher to a Dominion reporter at the Teachers’ Conference last week, “and it is from eccentricities that the observant examiner learns most of the working of young minds, and of the faulty systems by which they are trained. The most common typo of eccentric, if tho paradox will pass, is the muddler.” And ho gave the reporter the following examples on English history. “Wat Tyler started the poll tax, and Richard U. rode at him and struck him with a poleaxe.” “Richard I.’s subjects called him Coeur do Lion because once when ho was in prison ho killed a lion.” “Magna Charta said that people should not bo imprisoned for debt if they had enough money to pay it off.” “Simon de Montford was called Simple Simon.” “Tho Battle of Hastings was fought at Shrewsbury.” “Richard I. was a man with courage and a red complexion; ho was wellbuilt, and was fond of dress ” “Magna Carta said that Common Pleas should not be carried about on the King’s person.” / “At Bannockburn the Scotch placed honeycombs in the ground, which throw tho English into confusion.” (The ground was honeycombed with pits.) “John Wyeliffe reformed tho Bible; he was of a religious sox.” “Wat Tyler led the pheasants revolt; he was himself a pheasant.” “Magna Carta said that no freeman should be diseased without the consent of Parliament.” “When Henry I. heard this it is said he never Smiled again ; but this is not certain, as wo hear that ho died of eating too much.” The following is from a cuclid paper: “An eagle is the exclamation made by two linos on meeting in a plain.”