Mr. Rose's Address 213 



The provision of suitable conditions for the exercise 

 of those powers and the realization of those possi- 

 bilities must, fortunately for the teacher, be left in 

 other hands than his. 



But the elementary teacher, rural or urban, will not 

 admit any obligation to send out of his school children 

 capable of taking up without any further teaching or 

 training the different occupations they may, according 

 to the accident of locality rather than to natural 

 adaptation, be called upon to follow. 



If we encourage Nature-study in our schools, the 

 good of our pupils will be our chief and direct object; 

 all indirect gains must be subordinated to that. 



