The use of the dramatic method in dealing with faults based on the
exercise of imitative faculties has these recommendations:
1. It presents the new ideal for imitation vividly; it brings it
before the children in action, with words and gestures.
2. It overcomes the physical inertia of unusedness through practice.
Any one can remember cases in his own childhood in which he
resolved to do a certain thing, but failed when the chance came
through sheer lack of practice; the unschooled muscles refused to
do a new, strange thing. Teachers should be careful to practice
the game several times before suggesting that the action be made
a part of daily life.
3. It gives a pleasant association to the new idea; the association of
play is far more pleasant than that of didactic instruction.
Games and plays can be made very interesting and little children
love them.