Meaning of the Movement 55 

 ture-study teaching ought to utilize, as means of 

 education, the tools that a boy or girl naturally 

 uses. The habits of men are as important as 

 those of other animals. How to use a jack- 

 knife, a hoe, a saw, an auger, a hammer, or 

 other implement by means of which man adapts 

 himself to his conditions, is a very essential part 

 of good teaching, but one that is almost uni- 

 versally neglected. The tools of the household 

 may be made the means of training a girl to a 

 new hold on life. These devices are not to be 

 studied merely as implements, but as a part of 

 the study of the natural history of human beings. 

 All this would constitute a manual-training that 

 would be founded on good sense. (2) The 

 pupil should be taught to make observations on 

 himself. He will find himself to be a very 

 interesting natural-history object. It is just as 

 well to know how a man walks as to know how 

 a horse or a crow walks. The unconscious and 

 automatic habits of men and women are as 

 interesting as those of fish and insects. This 

 kind of observation ought to have remarkable 

 significance to health. It is most strange how 



