Note 22 — 9. Making up Fables

Note 22 (page 20). Pupils should stand before the class as they tell their stories. Only when they face their classmates can they speak to them effectively. There is no good in pupils' speaking unless they speak to some one. They must, like adults, have a real audience and something to tell that audience which it does not already know. Or, if there be repetition, this must be for a purpose that is of interest to the audience and therefore to the speaker.