CHAPTER I
THE PURPOSE OF STORY-TELLING IN
SCHOOL How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell | ||
THE NONSENSE TALE
Under this head I wish to include all the merely funny tales of childhood, embracing the
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More than this, humour teaches children, as it does their grown-up brethren, some of the facts and proportions of life. What keener teacher is there than the kindly satire? What more penetrating and suggestive than the humour of exaggerated statement of familiar tendency? Is there one of us who has not laughed himself out of some absurd complexity of over-anxiety with a sudden recollection of "clever Alice'' and her fate? In our household clever Alice is an old habituée, and her timely arrival has saved many a situation which was twining itself about
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And now we come to
CHAPTER I
THE PURPOSE OF STORY-TELLING IN
SCHOOL How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell | ||