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\ ()L. s February. 191'^ X<>. -i 



Foreword 



The study of nature certainly "finds its greatest field "f ac 

 tivity and application in the school garden. 



This is the reason that all nature study workers for our chil- 

 dren are warranted in turning to the school garden as the greatest 

 theatre of nature-study work. 



The school garden people of America are very glad, too, to 

 welcome the movement on the part of the leaders of nature study 

 t(^ utilize the school garden more and more. 



The greatfest nature truths are learned in contact with the 

 living being. The best education is the education of living. 

 But the school garden people are interested in the school garden 

 for quite another reason. 



From many sections of the cuuiury we have heard mutter- 

 ings of unrest as to the necessity of so many hard lessons and 

 so long school hours for small children. Many people are for- 

 tunately beginning to realize that the close housing of our little 

 ones in a totally artificial environment, — the classroom, — is a 

 very questionable practice. Cannot the child be educated out- 

 doors just as well as indoors? Would it not be much better for 

 the child, before it is ten years of age, to remain in the classroom 

 not over three hours a day and during the remaining time to be 

 occupied in the open? The school garden, which brings the 

 greatest industry and in every sense the most valuable practical 

 training as well as healthful surroundings, offers in large part 

 just this outdoor education. We must come to see that this is 

 the fundamental form and chief content of education. 



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