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promoting habits, and guard the pupils from the many 

 dangers to health that abound in school life. 



Since in other things "we learn to do by doing," so the 

 child will best learn the laws of life by living in a healthful 

 way; and the teacher, while furnishing the best possible 

 conditions for mental development, should be no less con- 

 cerned with securing the best possible conditions for the 

 physical growth of the child. 



Excursions and Field Lessons. As teachers come to 

 realize the value and importance of original percepts, they 

 provide more opportunities for securing them for their pupils. 

 Occasional well-planned excursions, field lessons, or visits 

 to places of industry will -prove helpful to the whole school. 

 The particular places to be visited will be determined by 

 the topics being studied and the places convenient to the 

 schoolhouse. No neighborhood in which a school can be 

 maintained will be without places of interest to visit, where 

 operations of nature and occupations of man may be studied. 



Following is a list of a few such places in or near most 

 cities : 



Garden . Brickkiln Museum 



Orchard Stone Quarry Post Office 



Farm Iron Foundry Railroad Station 



Nursery Blacksmith's Shop Power House 



Canal Candy Factory City Waterworks 



River Shoe Factory Reservoir 



Lake Woolen Mill Fire Department 



Parks Book Bindery Police Station 



Canon Machine Shop Public Library 



Hills Fish Market Printing Office 



Cave Meat Market Telegraph Office 



Swamp Bakery Telephone Office 



Mountains Grocery Store Weather Bureau 



Limekiln Department Store Unfinished House 



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