{"id":414,"date":"2013-01-19T21:35:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=414"},"modified":"2013-05-29T23:26:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T04:26:01","slug":"grammar-is-the-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/01\/19\/grammar-is-the-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar is the Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From the first, stress must be laid upon distinct and sustained enunciation, both in speaking and and in reading.\u00a0 But at the same time utterance must be perfectly natural; if affected or exaggerated the effect is unpleasing.\u00a0 <em><strong>The foundation of education must be laid in Grammar.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Unless this be thoroughly learnt subsequent progress is uncertain&#8211;a house built upon treacherous ground.\u00a0 Hence let the knowledge of nouns and verbs be secured early, as the starting point for the rest.\u00a0 The master will employ\u00a0the devices of repetition, examination, and the correction of erroneous inflexions purposely introduced.&#8221; Battista Guarino, \u201cOn the Means of Teaching and Learning,\u201d in <em>The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance<\/em>, ed. Kenneth R. Bartlett, 2nd edition (Toronto 2011), 191. [Emphasis Added]<\/p>\n<p>Guarino followed ancient and\u00a0medieval tradition in this emphasis on the importance of grammar for elementary students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From the first, stress must be laid upon distinct and sustained enunciation, both in speaking and and in reading.\u00a0 But at the same time utterance must be perfectly natural; if affected or exaggerated the effect is unpleasing.\u00a0 The foundation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/01\/19\/grammar-is-the-foundation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,27,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battista-guarino","category-grammar","category-renaissance","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}