" Culture consists less in wide knowledge than in wider 

 sympathy ; not so much in stores of facts as in ability to 

 transmute facts into knowledge ; not only in well-grounded 

 conviction, but in toleration ; not alone in absorption of 

 wisdom, but as well in its radiation ; in patriotism that 

 is without provincialism ; in the development of character. 

 But since individual minds differ much in their composition, 

 no one kind of treatment can be best for all, and the ideal 

 system will be that which is elastic enough to allow each 

 to receive what is best for it. True culture, then, cannot 

 be obtained by forcing all minds into any one mould, how- 

 ever carefully that may be made, but it is rather attained 

 by allowing each mind to expand for itself under a proper 

 combination of nourishment from within and stimulus 

 from without."— William F. Ganong, Ph. D., in "The 

 Teaching Botanist." 



"Nature Study should appeal to the imagination; the 

 artist and the poet should be called upon to help the child 

 interpret the beautiful."— A. C. Boyden. 

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