during
the last few
few months.
I made this request because whilst I watch
you giving
your lessons, I frequently noticed (particularly during the last few days of my
visits) that some of you
of you were not
at home in your subject.
I thought you had clearly given beforehand to the
matter and
method of your lessons. I have seen some of you giving geography
and Euclid lessons
by mechanically questioning your scholars from the text-book and
heard you
blame your boys for their inability to answer "questions which you read off from your book when it was perfectly plain that you could not judge of the correctness of
the answers given, with which you were testing, you were referring
to the book in your hands. I quite understand that on these
occasions, you were testing the home work of the boys. But has it never occurred to
you that when you blame boys or punish them by imposition or fine on the ground of home work unprepared, that you are equally guilty when you habitually come to your lessons unprepared? In making these remarks with regard to
some masters,
I am fully
aware that
others among you habitually give lessons which, I observed, were clearly planned and mapped out, which proceeded with the subject matter in proportion to the time
available and concluded
before the bell rang by carefully