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For to look to the right,
which is regularly taught, and to look ahead depends not so much on precept as on practice; since
it is necessary to keep the eyes on what follows
while reading out what precedes, with the resulting difficulty that the attention of the mind must
be divided, the eyes and voice being differently engaged. It will be found worth while, when the boy
begins to write out words in accordance with the
usual practice, to see that he does not waste his
labour in writing out common words of everyday
occurrence.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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