202 The Nature-Study Idea 



to develop special aptitudes for the work, and 

 these persons should be retained for this par- 

 ticular effort. The best talent should be em- 

 ployed for nature-study, as for anything else. 



If there is a domestic science teacher going 

 from school to school, perhaps she could also 

 qualify In nature-study. Much of what we call 

 domestic science Is, or should be, pure nature- 

 study; and all home questions should find ex- 

 pression In the schools. 



Should not nature-study he in all the grades 

 for all pupils, and technical work he left to the 

 high-school? 



[This teacher asks the following questions: 

 ''Should not every teacher who goes out to 

 the grades be prepared for giving the children 

 Instruction concerning the life about them? 

 Should not nature-study be planned for all the 

 grades as a means of giving the child his bear- 

 ings and relations to animals and plants, and 

 should not formal instruction In the principles 

 of agriculture come in the high-school? or, In 

 other words, should not the child's Interest in 



