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Excerpt from A Guide for the Study of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell This guide, as the others prepared by the writers, is intended to assist the pupils in the preparation for class room work and to make the introduction of the direct method in literary work an easier task for the teacher. It is a generally accepted fact that the teacher must cultivate a feeling for the language of a nation before the literature of a nation can be thoroughly under stood. It is our Opinion, based on experience, that a practical use of the language is the best means of giving the pupils a living Sprachgefilhl. The pupil thus gains a better preparation for the practical needs of the times, as well as a more thorough foundation for understanding the works of the poets. Even the most conservative teachers concede that the ability to read German texts, without first rendering them into English, is the ideal end to be attained in modern language teaching. Nevertheless, they insist upon employing a method which leads exactly in the Opposite direction, possibly, because they find that studying literature by the use of German in the classroom means an additional task to thealreadv overburdened teacher. It can not be denied that it really does mean more practical preparation and more intensive work for the teacher. Realizing this and convinced of the fact that the teacher will be repaid by more satisfactory results for his additional labor, the writers ofier this guide to the members of the profession, hoping that it will lighten the work for the teachers using German in the classroom, and trusting that it will prove an inducement for teachers still adhering to the trmslation method to give the direct method a fair trial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.