HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 97 



start for school in the morning. Sketch in detail 

 her eyes, ringers and nose. 



Write a list of nouns, adjectives, verbs and ad- 

 verbs that will apply to your own mother, and 

 from these compose ten sentences each day from 

 10:15 to 10:45 A. M., in connection with the 

 drawing work, and if the task is completed before 

 the time has expired, we will fold our arms and 

 sing about our mothers. Bear in mind that you 

 must never really go to see your mother for 

 the enjoyment of seeing her, nor only for the 

 enjoyment of her loving presence, but you must 

 learn to love her, and to let her influence permeate 

 every fiber of your life, by noting down with pad 

 and pencil, all possible details of her physical 

 structure. 



But we all know that this is not the method of 

 securing the highest degree of love for nature ; in 

 fact such a method would tend to obtain a heart- 

 felt love for one's own mother. 



Too much detail, too much method, too much 

 correlating kills it. 

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