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them to Uncle John ? Would you not like to take 

 her on your knee and have her explain them to 

 you? 



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 discoveries 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 encouraged primarily for the 

 purpose of discovering what the child really sees. 

 As the child sees more, and with greater accuracy, 

 the drawings 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 product of 

 the child's work that we forget the child. 



Too early in the school life do we begin to make 

 pupils mere artists and literators. First the child 

 should be encouraged to express himself ; then he 

 may be taught to draw and to compose. 



Is nature-study on the 'wane? 



Real nature-study cannot pass away. We are 

 children of nature, and we have never appreciated 



