soloan] QUESTIONS OF METHOD 23 



Let us be grateful, however, to our sturdy antagonist for the 

 warning he posts for those who tarry too long at the method of the 

 primary school, who affect to ignore the classifications of science, 

 and who regard the text-book only as a necessary evil; who permit 

 "the scanty scrawls called 'notes' made by the pupil;" who do the 

 work the pupil could do and would be charmed to do. Let us, 

 however, not be led astray by a symbolism which terms "animal 

 and plant classification the bed-rock foundation" of nature-study. 

 Those of us who have school-work to do with young people will be 

 safer to regard plant and animal classification not as the bed-rock 

 but as the structure reared upon a bed-rock of observation and 

 comparison. 



Normal School, David Soloan. 



Truro, N. S. 



