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it on the blackboard when you go back to the school. 
room ? 
Really it does not take any more time to see a thing 
correctly than to see it incorrectly. It takes a little 
more sense, that is all. 
Lt“takes “Some sense to: :pive “even -one. minute’ :of 
honest thought to the thing you are looking at. 
You know some children who never seem to have 
all their thoughts in one place at a time, and who in 
consequence never see anything really well. 
It is better to stop doing a thing altogether than 
-to do it in a foolish sort of way; and it is foolish to 
start to do even the smallest thing, and yet not do it. 
The child who looks at even a leaf in a way to 
make it possible for him to draw the outline of that 
leaf five minutes later, is likely to be the child who 
goes in for both work and play with all his heart, and 
who comes out as far ahead on the playground as he 
does in the schoolroom. 
Now, after that lecture, which some of you need 
badly enough (and which I will tell you, as a great 
secret, I need not a little myself), I want to point out 
afew more of the things that are worth noticing in a 
leaf. 
But perhaps it is better to save them for another 
chapter. 
