CONTENTS Continued 



PART III 



SOME PRACTICAL INQUIRIES 

 AND SOME WAYS OF ANSWERING THEM 



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How Shall I Know What Subjects to Choose ? . .131 



But If the Child Choose the Material, the Subject Will 



Lack Continuity : What Then? . . . .132 



Then Would You Give No Heed to Continuity ? . .132 

 How Shall I Make a Start ? . . . . , .133 

 Is Not Subject-Matter the First Consideration ? . .134 



Would You Teach Heat, Light and Physics as Nature- 

 Study Topics ? 135 



Would You Teach " Practical " and " Useful " Things ? . 135 



~~Would You Teach Objects that the Child Cannot See and 



Determine for Itself ? 136 



How Much Apparatus Do I Need ? . . . .136 



Is It "Thorough"? 137 



But Will Not This Nature-Study Be Called Superficial ? . 138 



But Do You Think That This Nature-Study Will Make 



Investigators? 138 



Will Not This Nature-Study Tend Still Further to Over- 

 burden the School ? 140 



Shall We Teach the Child to Collect, and Thereby to Kill ? 141 



Would You Tell the Child the Names of the Things ? . 141 



Would You Begin by First Reading to the Child About 



Nature ? 142 



Now That There Are So Many Nature-Books, How Shall 



I Choose the Most Useful One ? .... 142 



How Shall I Acquire Sufficient Knowledge to Enable Me 



to Teach Nature-Study ? H3 



