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things. He learns that in the tiny seed and inert chrysalis are 

 concealed life forces which under favorable conditions will ex- 

 pand into plant and butterfly. He learns, by seeing, the home- 

 making instincts of bird and insect and the mother-care of nature 

 for her children. He is taken out-of-doors and his attention is 

 directed to a few of the concrete phases of nature and a sympa- 

 thetic interest is easily aroused. This is done without formality 

 but with system, and there can be no excuse offered for failing to 

 continue the work so well begun in the kindergarten, to keep up 

 the love and study of nature from nature and from that inex- 

 haustible source lead to the love of art, science and religion. 

 Continue also the walks and excursions so valued by Froebel. 

 Try to see not how much but how well. Select materials fitted to 

 the growing interests of the child. Win him to an appreciative 

 knowledge of how "Spacious and fair is the world," and artificial 

 vulgarisms will not attract him. By thus using the "all-quicken- 

 ing creative power of child-life" we should be able to overcome 

 some of the glaring defects in our present well-intentioned but 

 desultory system and at the same time solve some of the sociologi- 

 cal problems of the day. It is surely time we realized that 

 "To know nature and man is the sum of all earthly knowledge." 



