30 EDUCATION BY PLAYS AND GAMES Erasmus suggested that the teacher should palHate the tedium of drill in reading and writing by an attractive method. " The ancients modeled toothsome dainties into the form of letters, and thus, as it were, made the children swallow the alphabet." Comenius again… … iS^ATUKE Interest — Chasing a Squirrel The Jesuits made a conspicuous endeavor to utilize the game spirit in education by means of their cemidus, a device which they carried to an extreme. Each boy in school was pitted against some other boy in a kind of intellectual wres- tling match ; there was…
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