IIO HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 



for my two eyes, so far apart." Then he looked 

 at the little star and at the big moon, and slowly 

 said, " They are so very, very, very small." 



But the little boy roguishly pulled down the 

 small end and peered through it. " Am I too so 

 very, very small ? Why, you are very, very big." 



Haec fabula docet, 'tis easy to get things t'other 

 end to. 



• • • • • • 



There once was a man (perhaps there has been 

 more than one), who, looking through the big end 

 of the university, said, " I will now view the child 

 in Nature." So he wrote in a book: 



" Science teaching for a few years past has been 

 gradually working itself downward from the col- 

 leges and high schools into those of lower grades." 

 And realizing that the thing did not work, he 

 proceeds apologetically to state that " In most 

 cases, the plans followed, while fairly well adapted 

 to the demands of advanced pupils, have been 

 poorly fitted to the needs of beginners." So this 

 book (Professor Jackman's " Nature Study ") 

 starts out with "the aim to furnish a guide for 

 teachers in the common schools who wish their 

 pupils to pursue an adequate and symmetrical 

 course in Nature Science." 



