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is common in such cases, in pleasing nobody. 

 Meanwhile, our children are the helpless and un- 

 fortunate victims of a series of experiments, as the 

 school authorities try out different educational 

 theories. 



Far be it from the writer to propose a solution 

 of the difficulty or to proffer any panacea for our 

 educational ills; but in all humility he ventures to 

 suggest the desirability of making it possible for 

 the child to know something about the world in 

 which he lives. Book-learning, essential as it is, 

 is not enough if we would fit the child to live the 

 larger and more joyous life. When we have 

 studied literature and art and philosophy and 

 science, when we have become familiar with the 

 great cities with their bewildering sights and dis- 

 tracting sounds, the finest things remain to be dis- 

 covered, and these discoveries must be made as we 

 stand open-eyed in the presence of God's work- 

 manship. 



Hills and streams, woods and flowers, bees and 

 birds and butterflies, the flora and fauna of this 

 earth where we have our home for a little time, 

 should, somehow, be brought into the life of the 

 child. The boy who grows up into manhood with- 

 out being privileged to know the world of nature 

 by personal contact has been robbed. He may be 

 intelligent in many things and a useful member of 

 society, but he has missed out of life some of its 

 deepest satisfactions and purest joys. Indeed, such 





