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PART III 



INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS 



PACT 



How Shall I Know What Subjects to Choose? 171 



But If the Child Choose the Material, the Subject Will 



Lack Continuity: What Then? 173 



Then Would You Give No Heed to Continuity? 173 



Should Nature-Study Give Way to "Fundamental" 



Work? 174 



What is the Proper Pedagogical Starting-Point for 



Nature-Study? 178 



How Shall I Make a Start? 181 



How May I Secure Permission from My Principal to 



Teach Nature-Study ? 183 



Would You Teach Heat, Light and Physics as Nature- 

 Study Topics? 185 



Would You Teach "Practical" and "Useful" Things?.. 185 

 Would You Teach Objects that the Child Cannot See 



and Determine for Itself? 188 



How Much Apparatus Do I Need ? 188 



Is It "Thorough" ? 189 



But Will Not This Nature-Study Be Called Superficial? 191 

 Will Not This Nature-Study Tend Still Further to Over- 

 burden the School ? 192 



Shall We Teach the Child to Collect, and Thereby to 



Kill? 194 



How May We Develop a Humane Attitude Toward 



Living Things ? 195 



Would You Tell the Child the Names of the Things?.. 196 

 Would You Begin by First Reading to the Child About 



Nature? 197 



Now That There Are So Many Nature-Books, How Shall 



I Choose the Most Useful One? 198 



How Shall I Acquire Sufficient Knowledge to Enable Me 



to Teach Nature-Study? 199 



