The mere “hearing” of spelling lessons is happily a thing of the past
in most schools. However, teachers cannot be too strongly impressed
with the worthlessness of such exercises. The primary object is to
instruct, not to examine--to teach to spell correctly, not to find out
how many words may be spelled incorrectly. Review lessons should be
given frequently, and these are sufficient for test purposes. All other
lessons should be thoroughly taught with instruction the aim and object
of the lesson.