Excerpt from A Study of Questioning<br><br>The question rightly used is a medium through which a teacher comes into the closest touch affectively with her pupil. The pupil's reaction-time and the mode of reaction to the given question will reveal his mental type and characteristics; for instance, whether he is of visual, auditory, motor, or mixed type; whether his temperament is sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic, etc.; or again whether he is able to impress something upon his mind (memory) with ease or difficulty, whether he forgets quickly or slowly, whether he can retain a great mass of ideas or only. Scanty fragments; etc. All these analytical observations are the indispensable task of a teacher in real dynamic education; for this knowledge alone will furnish the principles of individual psychology. Care, however, should be taken that the observations be made scientifically. The teacher, through such diagnosis, will discover technique for further questioning. The question is, thus, a tool for psychological analysis and diagnosis.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.