READINGS AND EXERCISES
NOTE.—Numbers in parentheses refer to complete citations in
Bibliography at end of book.
Readings: Fulton (5) Lockwood (11)
Exercise 1. List concrete problems that have newly come to you since your arrival upon the campus.
Exercise 2. List in order the difficulties that confront you in preparing your daily lessons.
Exercise 3. Prepare a work schedule similar to that provided by the form in Chart I. Specify the subject with which you will be occupied at each period.
Exercise 4. Try to devise some way of registering the effectiveness with which you carry out your schedule. Suggestions are contained in the summary: Disposition of (1) as planned; (2) as spent. To di
Stimulate brain activity by the method suggested in Chapter X, namely, by means of muscular activity.
Go slowly, then, in impressing material for the first time. As you look up the words of a foreign language in the lexicon, trying to memorize their English equivalents, take plenty of time. Obtain
free, then, to work upon the subject-matter of the lecture. Debate mentally with the speaker. Question his statements, comparing them with your own experience or with the results of your study.
short, always read for a purpose. Formulate problems and seek their solutions. In this way will there be direction in your reading and your thought
ead not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider." Ibsen bluntly states the same thought:
"Don't read to swallow; read to choose, for 'Tis but to see what one has use for."
better way is to read through an entire paragraph or section, then close the book and reproduce in your own words what you have read.
, Let your notes represent the logical progression of thought in the lecture
ne criterion that should guide in the preparation of notes is the use to which they will be put
The most serviceable mind is that which accomplishes results in the shortest time and with least waste motion
