Inquiries and x\nswers 



PRACTICAL problems confront the teacher. 

 However well he may understand the 

 theory and however fully he may agree with it, 

 a new difficulty arises every time that he at- 

 tempts to teach. A child will ask a question 

 that a philosopher cannot answer; but on every 

 question the teacher must have a point of view. 

 I frequently speak to teachers on means of 

 teaching nature-study. For the time they are 

 pupils and they ask questions: I am obliged to 

 take a point of view, and some of these opinions 

 I have made note of at the time. Questions 

 come in the mail. Some of these many inquiries 

 and answers are here reprinted, not because they 

 may be correct, but because they may be sug- 

 gestive; and it will not matter if they repeat or 

 expand some of the statements on the earlier 

 pages. 



How shall I know what subjects to choose? 

 Let the children choose the subject now and 

 then. Let them collect the specimens. 



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