Notes on Plan for the Study and Record of Pupils

Abstract

of my images are very vague and indefinite that I begin to think it is because they were never expressed. Expression was not a feature in my education, and I think I never was educated. There was no necessity for a strong image in the regime under which I studied, because no expression was asked for. Expression demands a strong image, and cannot be had without it. Expression brings the growing image. I thought I had a fairly strong image of the surface of Mexico until I began to model it. Then I had to go over and over all I had heard and seen for the improvement of my image. I find the strongest images I have ever had were those gained out of school, but I never realized until to-day that the reason is this-that I executed or expressed them. I did not need strong images in order to pass my examinations and get high marks, and that is what I worked for in school. We can do nothing without first imaging. It follows that what we have executed or done has requiredthe strongest images. When I have planned and thought and executed for my household, I have had the strongest images. I had to image when I prepared and served a dinner or directed it. I think I know now one reason why I always disliked history and thoroughly liked any sort of mathematical work. History was merely a memorizing of statements for me. Arithmetic, algebra, and geometry gave me something to work out. The test of the strength of the image is expression. Even the most general form of expression, speech, reveals the weakness of the