Examination Errors.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 September 1913, Page 4

Examination Errors.

SOME CUPIOUS HOWLERS

"it is the eccentric thai interests," said a secondary schoolteacher to a reporter at the Teachers' Conference recently, "and it is from eccentricities that the observant examiner learns most of tin* working of young minds, and of the faulty system by which they are trained. The most common type of eccentric, if the paradox will pass, is the muddler." And he gave the reporters the following examples on Knglisb history to add to the "howlers" published recently: "Wat Tyler started the poll tax, and Richard 11. rode af him and struck him with a poieaxe.'' "Hiehard L's subjects called him Coeur de Lion because once when he was in prison lie killed a lion." "Magna Charla said that people should hot be imprisoned for debt if they had enough money to pay if off." "Simon de Monifort was called Simple Simon." "The Battle of Hastings was fought at Shrewsbury." Richard T was a man with courage and a red complexion : he was well built, and was fond of dress. '

"Magna Carta said the Common Pleas should not be carried about on the King's person." "At Bannockburn the Scotch placed honeycombs in the ground, which threw the English into confusion." (The ground was honeycombed with pits). ".John Wyc.liffo reformed the Bible: lie was of religious sex." "'Wat Tyler lead the pheasants revolt; he was himself a pheasant. ' "Magna Carta said that no freeman should be diseased without the consent of Parliament.'' "When Henry 1. heard this it is said he never smiled again ; but this is not certain, as we hear that he died of eating too much.' The following is from an euchd i paper: — "An eagle is the exclamation made by two lines on meeting in a plain."