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The answer suggests itself: Because they have acquired the habit of joint action without the sense of individual responsibility. The advantages of the present system of instruction by classes are not to be overlooked. Yet they are attended with one serious evil. The members of a class, reciting day by day, term after term, upon the same subjects, acquire the notion of a certain average of work.
If a pupil learns things from books simply in connection with school lessons and for the sake of reciting what he has learned when called upon, then knowledge will have effect upon some conduct namely upon that of reproducing statements at the demand of others. There is nothing surprising that such "knowledge" should not have much influence in the life out of school.
A fire was lighted in the larger room, in the centre, where there was a hole for the exit of the smoke. The Marabouts seemed to be praying or reciting the Koran on one side of it, for there was a continuous chant or hum going on there; but they seemed to have no objection to the Christians sitting together on the other side conversing and exchanging accounts of their adventures.
Here was the most beautiful young man she had ever seen an entire stranger talking to them in the most beautiful and natural way, right in the lane, and reciting poetry to her sister! It was like a novel only more so. She thought that Cynthia, on the other hand, looked distressed, and she must say it "silly." All of which Jack noted, and was wise. He had got all he wanted at present.
Oliver is ill and I am going to him," she repeated over and over to herself as if she were reciting a prayer. Inside the station she declined the offer of breakfast, and was conducted to the ferry, where she was obliged to run in order to catch the boat that was just leaving.
After it has been repeated again and again, you listen to the reader as he deliberately begins a new paragraph; you hear him reciting the involved, but comprehensive and clear arrangement of the sentence, detailing all possible particulars of the offence described, and you breathlessly await, whether that clause also is going to be concluded by the discharge of the terrible minute-gun.
So she stayed away altogether, and began reciting her prayers to Buddha more diligently than ever before. She determined never to give up her vow, but to go steadily on, and to be even more earnest in the future, so that if possible she might find peace and rest for her soul. In that state we found her when next we visited the place. She was so unhappy.
Bancroft, Sr., lived in a house which stood about one hundred feet north of my present residence, and the office of Dr. Amos was on the spot now occupied by the front of my house. At the close of business for the day, nine o'clock in the evening, I was in the habit of going to the office and reciting my Latin lesson, after which we discussed other matters.
When the iron was hammered cold, Jube broke the momentary silence. "I hev got," he droned, as if he were reciting something made familiar by repetition, "two roosters, 'leven hens, an' three pullets." There was a long pause, and then he chanted, "One o' the roosters air a Dominicky." He walked over to the anvil and struck it with a small bit of metal which he held concealed in his hand.
Doris could hardly drag her weary feet along, as she walked from where the omnibus had set her down to her uncle's studio. But it was soon evident that within the studio itself there was animation enough. From the long passage approaching it Doris heard someone shouting declaiming what appeared to be verse. Madame, of course, reciting her own poems poor Uncle Charles!
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