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PART III 



INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS 



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How Shall I Know What Subjects to Choose? 171 



But If the Child Choose the Material, the Subject Will 



Lack Continuity: What Then? 173 



Then Would You Give No Heed to Continuity? 173 



Should Nature-Study Give Way to "Fundamental" 



Work? 174 



What is the Proper Pedagogical Starting-Point for 



Nature-Study ? 178 



How Shall I Make a Start? 181 



How May I Secure Permission from My Principal to 



Teach Nature-Study ? 183 



Would You Teach Heat, Light and Physics as Nature- 

 Study Topics ? 185 



Would You Teach "Practical" and "Useful" Things?.. 185 

 Would You Teach Objects that the Child Cannot See 



and Determine for Itself? 188 



How Much Apparatus Do I Need ? 188 



Is It "Thorough"? 189 



But Will Not This Nature-Study Be Called Superficial? 191 

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

 burden the School ? 192 



Shall We Teach the Child to Collect, and Thereby to 



Kill? 194 



How May We Develop a Humane Attitude Toward 



Living Things ? 195 



Would You Tell the Child the Names of the Things?.. 196 

 Would You Begin by First Reading to the Child About 



Nature ? 197 



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



I Choose the Most Useful One? 198 



How Shall I Acquire Sufficient Knowledge to Enable Me 



to Teach Nature-Study? 199 



