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The Education of Catholic Girls

CHAPTER III
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Teaching likewise exposes to faults perhaps less in themselves but far reaching in their effect upon children; a little observation will show how the smallest peculiarities tell upon them, either by affecting their dispositions or being caught by them and reproduced.

To take one example among many, the pitch and intonation of the voice often impress more than the words.

A nurse with a querulous tone has a restless nursery; she makes the high-spirited contradictory and the delicate fretful.

In teaching, a high-pitched voice is exciting and wearing to children; certain cadences that end on a high note rouse opposition, a monotonous intonation wearies, deeper and more ample tones are quieting and reassuring, but if their solemnity becomes exaggerated they provoke a reaction.

Most people have a certain cadence which constantly recurs in their speaking and is characteristic of them, and the satisfaction of listening to them depends largely upon this characteristic cadence.


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