HOW TO TRAIN THE MEMORY.THE THREE A'S.With the object of illustrating the connection between the theory and practice of education, that is, between -the conception of what is to be done, and the means of doing it, I offer the following remarks on Memory, and its treatment in the school-room.Whatever we see or become conscious of by way of our senses has an effect upon our minds; also everything that we think or The mind wish. Whether that effect is in holds its im-all cases indestructible is not
...a pressions. settled point, though some very singular occurrences have proved that we retain far more than we ourselves suppose. A remarkable case has been reported from one of the London hospitals, of a man who in the delirium of fever suddenly began to speak in an unknown tongue. The language was at last identified as Welsh, When the man recovered, he said that he had spoken Welsh when a boy, but had since lost it, and could not when in health remember a word
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