6 THE NEW METHOD 



pressing his ideas in words. In school the child must 

 soon begin to widen and improve his method by 

 recording the results of observation in writing and 

 drawing. This very soon interests him even more 

 than his oral method, which will still be useful 

 to him. 



All nature is a unit, and the science of nature is 

 only one science. The division of science into a 

 dozen branches is right in the advanced stages of 

 education, but in primary and grammar schools it is 

 absurd, and fatal to progress. In all grades below 

 the high school all studies are to be correlated, and 

 learned as one subject. Children are always in- 

 terested in this work, and they make easy and rapid 

 progress in the arts of reading, spelling, writing, com- 

 position, punctution, drawing, and use of capitals, 

 as well as in every branch of science. 



Whatever a child learns in school should be 

 organized for his immediate use. Each lesson must 

 involve principles which can be used, and will be used 

 in the child's free activities, in school and out of 

 school. So far as it goes a child's education must 

 always be complete. From the beginning it must be 

 a little system of philosophy for the child's use : and 

 it must be so pleasing and attractive to him, that 

 he will always want to extend and widen it. The 

 government of such a school is very easy ; for children 



