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appeared a need for the school or for the individual pupil. Illustra- 

 tion : Building a book-case, building a boat. 



5. The manual training in some of our schools has gradually come 

 to cover almost every form of physical activity by means of which 

 the mind is developed. 



The tendency in every form is to the practical or that which touches 

 the life of the child. When one considers such a modern form of 

 nature-study as gardening, it at once becomes evident that manual 

 training is absolutely necessary. In fact, one at times hesitates to 



The garden at Hyannis. 



The school-garden furnishes one of the best forms of nature-study 

 for the school.'" 



know whether to classify school gardening under the head of nature- 

 study or manual training. 



At Hyannis the Sloyd was displaced by the garden work in the 

 upper grammar grades because the former seemed too formal and 

 abstract for these grades. But the garden work was put in charge of 

 the teacher of biology because an understanding of biology was 

 necessary to the proper teaching of school gardening. 



Certain it is that the school-garden furnishes one of the best forms 

 of nature-study for the school that has yet been found and we feel 



