A young boy learns to play golf largely by taking the sticks
as he has seen some one hold them and whacking at the ball in
a haphazard fashion. Sometimes he hits it squarely, and then
he gets a satisfaction that tends to impress on him the memory
of the movement resulting in this satisfaction. He tries the
next time to reproduce this feeling and to locate the point
of difference, tho he is or may be conscious of none of these
efforts on his part. He keeps trying and trying until he
succeeds, noting meanwhile the ways other people stand, hold
their clubs, and swing, and comparing them with his way. An
old man, on the other hand, tries this method but makes no
such progress. He is not free to establish a dozen new ways
of getting a swing as the boy is. He has one or two already
established ways of turning on his feet and of swinging his
arms, but these unfortunately are not such as to help him
in his golf. He must, therefore, not merely recognize and
strive for the details of the right way, but he must more
or less consciously break up the old ways. His chances are
poor of success unless he is wisely directed; _i.e._,
taught.--STUART H. ROWE, “Proceedings of the Religious
Education Association,” 1907.
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=Learning Transformed Into Life=--See PRINCIPLES, MASTERING.
=Leisure=--See TIME, IMPROVING.
=Lessons, Class=--See ENCOURAGEMENT.