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intellectual sphere. Immensely do they extend 

 our horizon. They add to the store of subject- 

 matter. They make progress possible. But these 

 persons must always be the few. They are a 

 professional class. Most persons desire those 

 things which have relation to the ideals of living. 

 To them, science as science is of little moment. 

 They cannot pursue it. It is dry. But it may be 

 made a means of giving them closer touch with 

 nature. If pursued too far or in too great detail, 

 it may repel rather than attract. What we teach 

 as science drives many a person from nature. We 

 must reach the people; but we can reach them 

 only by looking from their point of view. Most 

 persons cannot be investigators. In the school-life 

 there must come a reaction from the too exclusive 

 view-point of science. 



In the early years we are not to teach 

 nature as science, we are not to teach it 

 primarily for method or for drill : we are to 

 teach it for living and for loving — and this is 

 nature-study. On these points I make no 

 compromise. 



The best living must always be a striving for 

 ideals. The day of the idealist is not passed. It 

 is here. We must not allow the phenomenal 

 development of our material progress to obscure 

 it. We must rise to higher ideals. We must 

 educate the child for the life of the next generation. 

 A good teacher has the gift of prophecy. The 

 twentieth century is coming in with a spiritual 

 awakening. One sign of this awakening is the 



