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mind's eye images to a remarkable degree, and all possess it to 

 some degree. Yet as Galton truly remarks : " Our bookish and 

 wordy education tends to repress this valuable gift of nature. A 

 faculty that is of importance in all technical and artistic occupa- 

 tions, that gives accuracy to our perceptions and justness to our 

 generalisations, is starved by lazy disuse, instead of being 

 cultivated judiciously in such a way as will on the whole 

 produce the best return. I believe that the serious study of the 

 best method of developing and utilising the faculty without 

 prejudice to the practice of abstract thought in symbols is one of 

 the many pressing desiderata in the yet unformed science ol 

 education." This appeal of Galton emphasises the importance 

 of educating the association of the eye and the hand. 



The child has imagination, and it loves to picture in its 

 mind's eye visions of the beautiful. What greater proof can we 

 have of this than the universal popularity of Hans Andersen's 

 fairy tales, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. The child 

 is naturally idealistic and romantic, and its character can be 

 studied best in its ideals and play, because there is no repression. 

 Now it is well to train a child to give expression to its ideas and 

 ideals, not only by words, but by acts, especially by the hand, 

 the instrument of the mind, and yet the mind's instructor. 



In this country Mr. Cooke has been a pioneer in teaching 

 free-hand drawing by children on proper lines ; and those who 

 are interested in this important branch of education should read 

 New Methods in Education, by J. Liberty Tadd of the Adirondack 

 Schools. 



The Order of Development of the Physiological Functions 

 of the Brain in Relation to Education 



It will be observed from what I have said in my two previous 

 lectures — in which I dealt with the morphology of the brain and 

 its development — that the earliest parts of the cerebral cortex to 

 exhibit functional capacity are those areas which serve as the 

 receptors of the organic and general body sensibility and the 

 special senses. A very little time after birth the motor area is 

 myelinated, and therefore prepared to react in response to 

 sensory stimuli, whether coming from the body itself in the 

 form of organic needs or from without in response to stimuli 

 from the external world. The former are fundamental to the 

 preservation of the individual, for upon the organic needs are 



