CHAPTER II. 



OUR METHODS IN GENERAL. 



OUTDOOR AND INDOOR STUDIES. 



ALTHOUGH our subject is one for which much is claimed, 

 success in teaching depends upon the methods employed. 

 It is a subject in which it is particularly desirable that 

 general principles be kept well in view by the teacher, and 

 while considerable latitude is possible in the matter of 

 details, it should be the teacher's aim to carry out well 

 balanced courses, which will exercise an all-round influence 

 aesthetic, disciplinary, informative cultivating a love of 

 the open, each in degree suitable to the particular school 

 grade under instruction. 



It will readily be recognised by the teacher that if our 

 ideals are to be realised, even in measure, a series of 

 lessons taught indoors on definite natural objects is not 

 sufficient. Our aim is 



(1) to cultivate vital contact with the outdoor world; 



(2) to exercise the various disciplines which Nature 



Study is capable of supplying, so as to yield a wide 

 culture, together with an appreciation of human 

 relations practical and other to nature. 



To effect these, some organisation for the carrying on 

 of outdoor work is required, and here certain practical 

 questions arise. Even in schools most favourably 



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