214 The Nature-Study Idea 



desire to put the child into sympathetic relation 

 with its own necessities. 



I fully commend education by means of 

 literature and history and science and art, of 

 course; but if I were confined to one means I 

 should choose that which would lead me to 

 love the things that I see and the work that I 

 do day by day. This outlook I should want 

 to impress on my children; but I could not 

 impress it by any mere intellectual means. It 

 is an affair of the heart; and if I do not live it 

 I cannot teach it. 



But it does not follow because one or even 

 both of the parents is in full rhythm with 

 the natural world, that the parents can teach 

 the child effectively. Few persons are good 

 teachers; and when there is marked difference 

 of outlook between the parents, the school may 

 be the only agency that can give the child an 

 harmonious relation. 



The school is a distributing agency for all 

 kinds of educational ideas. It must more con- 

 sciously recognize this function and take pains 

 to aid parents, pastors, and others to encourage 



