THE ART OF QUESTIONING; OR, A SHORT ANALYSIS OF THE INTERROGATORY DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF TEACHERS, PUPIL-TEACHERS, AND MONITORS. BY W. T. YOUNG, T.C.D. Resident Master, Royal Hibernian Military Schoo BODLE LOU MEA DUBLIN WILLIAM CURRY AND COMPANY, LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO., AND SIMPKIN, MARSHAL AND co. ; PREFACE. THE ability to communicate knowledge successfully to others, and particularly to the young, is less rare than that by which the knowledge so acquired by the pupil, is drawn out, and by which he is made to think. It is a feeling not uncommon among those who have most distinguished themselves in the acquisition of knowledge, that the attempt to teach, what they have themselves been taught, is at once descending to an irksome drudgery, and that to examine on what they may be qualified to answer with promptness, is an ordeal too severe to encounter. Nor is this much to be wondered at, when it is considered that questioning has seldom or never been taught as an art, and that many teachers unacquainted with any regular method of examining, have felt on this point some difficulty and embarrassment. To supply to a small extent these desiderata, and to assist in removing these obstacles, is the object of the following pages. The practical rules of which every art consists, are here, for the most part, put in the form of Cautions. The term 'Catechising' would have been preferred to that of Questioning, expressing better the nature of |