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after school if the teacher had ever been down to 

 see his pets, and he said he had once invited her, 

 and she seemed somewhat interested, but she 

 must walk that afternoon with another teacher in 

 the woods by Reginald park to get some leaves 

 for the next day's lesson. He guessed she forgot 

 it afterwards. 



Then I forgot that Sam was walking with me, 

 and my mind wandered again. I was thinking 

 about some of the others in the school that had 

 special interests, and I wondered and I wondered 

 till there floated through my mind another thing 

 that I had read in Professor Hodge's " Nature 

 Study and Life : " 



In adult science we have been studying dead things so 

 long, dissecting and analyzing type-forms, that we have well- 

 nigh gone blind to the living, active side of nature ; but 

 this has furnished the primitive and fundamental, and must 

 furnish the larger future, interest of mankind in nature. So 

 completely does this side monopolize our college and even 

 university courses in biology that our teachers know noth- 

 ing else to teach. 



However much value this may have for the adult thought, 

 when we attempt to teach little children we must moult it all f 

 heed every suggestion of the Great Teacher \ and become as 

 little children ourselves. 



There you have the solution. Just so long as 

 you let dilute or elementary science (good as it 



