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always do poor work in everything. Many like it who do poor 
work in everything.” 
“I do not want my own children ignorant of the fundamental 
principles of life beyond the age of 14. It has increased the in- 
terest in agriculture.” 
“Valuable practical results in personal cleanliness, care of 
health and interest in outdoor life. Its sanitary effect is marked.” 
“Practical value in teaching food values. 
“Biology the most practical study in the high school.” 
“More interest and enthusiasm about biology than about any 
other one subject. 
“Children uniformly interested. Particularly valuable for a 
city child. Valuable exercises in gathering and organizing ma- 
terial.” 
“Tor the past year I have been very closely in touch with a 
first year class. During that time I have been increasingly im- 
pressed with what Biology is doing for the children. They learn 
a lot about things they ought to know and would not get in any 
other way, and they learn in a scientific manner. There is no sub- 
ject that they talk so much about as Biology. I feel that Biology 
is the most valuable and vital subject of the first year in the 
High School.” 
“T have a very strong feeling that Biology is an extremely im- 
portant subject. It forms the foundation of all health studies, 
prepares the way for later applied sciences including cooking, 
and is of practical value in many other ways. From the purely 
educational viewpoint, when properly taught, it does more to open 
the eyes of pupils, to cultivate the power of observation, and 
stimulate the desire for investigation, than any other course in the 
school. Besides this, it has a deep significance in its relation to 
and explanation of the deeper spiritual problem of life. People 
are daily becoming more concerned in these problems, and we 
shall not be doing our duty by future generations, if we fail to 
supply the knowledge that furnished a partial solution of the 
meaning of life. In addition to this, Biology properly taught 
has a moralizing and spiritualizing influence by its very nature. 
Whenever it hasn’t such an influence the fault is in the teaching, 
not in the subject.” 
