Document Type
Article
Department or Administrative Unit
Educational Foundations and Curriculum
Publication Date
9-1913
Abstract
Despite the fact that a few far-seeing men have, from the early years of the eighteenth century, inveighed against the dominance of spelling and the "cruel drudgery" it entailed upon the learner, the subject remained an independent discipline far into the nineteenth century. To be able to spell was the criterion whereby to judge the educated man and so ingrained did this become in the popular mind that even to this day our grandfathers, nay our fathers, dubiously shake their heads because spelling no longer occupies a conspicuous place on the schoolroom program and because, as they insist, the rising generation cannot spell.
Recommended Citation
Grupe, M. A. (1913). A Review of the Pedagogical Studies in the Teaching of Spelling. Education, 34(1), 1-19.
Journal
Education
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Language and Literacy Education Commons
Comments
This article was originally published in Education.