26 HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 



be added to all studies. Elbert Howard says, 

 " The kindergarten is the best school ever estab- 

 lished for educating — parents." And I add, for 

 educating teachers. 



Nature pedagogy is the true pedagogy ; let 

 the spirit of it permeate and give vitality to every 

 feature of the schoolroom so strongly, that it will 

 accompany the child through his life. 



Dr. J. E. Taylor, late editor of " Science Gos- 

 sip," and a writer of scientific books, says : 



Is there anything more delightful than the fatigue of an 

 afternoon's long ramble after objects one loves ? You are not 

 tired of them but with them. It is a delicious fatigue. 

 Subsequent years of trouble cannot obliterate the charmed 

 impressions. They are the sunniest spots in one's memory. 

 Their recollections come, like angels' visits, to unconsciously 

 relieve us in after years of many a sad trouble and trial. 

 They should be laid up in store when you are young, so that 

 they can be drawn upon when you are old. Then the sun- 

 shine of youth is stored to gild the troubled days of matured 

 manhood and the darker shadows of old age. 



That is " vat it ish for." That is what we 

 teachers shall not need to explain, if we act so 

 that the question need not be asked. We shall 

 arouse the child, and make that waking so notice- 

 able by the parent that he will fail to observe the 

 lobster. 



We would not make the child's mind a dump- 



