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during

the last few

few months.

I made this request because whilst I watch

you giving

your lessons, I frequently roticed (particularly during the last few days of my

visits) that some of you

of you were not

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1 at home in your subject-

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

beck an

heard

for

your

hand and I

blame

your boys

to answer

was

you their inability "questions which you read off from your book when it perfectly plain that you could not judge of the correctnces of

given withwich

the answers

referring

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referring to the book in your hands. I quite understand

were testing, you were

that

to

on these

occasions, the home work of the boys. But has it never occurred

you that when you blame: boys or punish them by imposition or fine

or fine on the ground of home work unpre- pared, that you are equally quilly when you habitually come to your lessons unprepared, In making these remarks with regard to

regard to some masters,

fully

Lam

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 bill rang by

carefully