224 The Nature-Study Idea 



Primarily, drawing is a means of expressing 

 what we see and feel; now and then a person 

 develops the ability to make a picture that 

 pleases others, and he becomes an artist. 

 Primarily, our interest in the external world is 

 one of sympathy and personality; now and then 

 a person develops the ability to make discov- 

 eries and to record them, and he becomes a 

 scientist. 



Correlation of nature-study and drawing 

 should give excellent results to both subjects. 

 The nature-study should afford objects in which 

 the pupil is genuinely interested; the drawing 

 should aid in focusing the observation and 

 making it accurate. Drawing should be en- 

 couraged primarily for the purpose of discover- 

 ing what the child really sees. As the child 

 sees more, and with greater accuracy, the draw- 

 ings improve. So the drawings become an 

 approximate measure of the progress of the 

 pupil. Do not measure the drawings merely 

 as drawings, or from the artist's point of view. 

 We are likely to dwell so much on the mere 



