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indicate an unknown quantity or value. In all the work 

 let there be precision, promptitude, neatness and accuracy. 

 Teach the child that scientific work is always exact, and 

 that"! guess," " I think so," "maybe," and "perhaps" 

 have no place in the young observer's vocabulary. 



In the experience of the writer these methods of graphic 

 statement and record are of educational value in many 

 other ways. Observing and recording facts in nature is 

 itself educational it brings out and in a way that is, 

 to nearly all children, entertaining as Well as instructive. 

 There is, moreover, a moral value to such work. The 

 child taught to observe, to see everywhere and at all times 

 something of interest, is safe against "wandering thoughts 

 and low desires." He is perpetually entertained by the 

 grand procession of the seasons, the great drama of the 

 universe. He begins to comprehend the aim and work 

 of the Creative Mind and has no longer the time for trivial 

 things of self and narrow living. His horizon is too big for 

 small affairs. Observation leads to the scientific spirit, 

 and this is good for any man or woman, of whatever 

 position in life and society. 



