HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT l6l 



And yet a grasshopper may be used in kinder- 

 garten or in university with profit and without 

 repetition. 



Said Linnaeus to a pupil, as he laid his hand on 

 a bit of moss : "Here lies sufficient material for 

 the study of a lifetime." Perhaps some of us 

 would regard that remark as a little hyperbolic, 

 but if taken literally, without doubt we should 

 all agree that the child's relation to the mosses is 

 entirely different from that of the expert technical 

 botanist. I suppose that it is the avoidance of 

 repetition of relation that Principal Suydam has 

 in mind. We may live for decades in the same 

 home, but the point of view changes rapidly and 



opens up new vistas as years go by. 

 II 



