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Oct 28: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION


How Dice Taught Spelling

Locke taught children by means of games. He tells of a game
whereby children were taught to spell with dice on which the
letters of the alphabet were pasted. This was more than 200 years
before modern kindergarten methods. Today's children would
respond to such wise direction as Locke recommends.

Read: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION .........   Vol. 37, pp. 128-136