WHAT IS NATURE STUDY f 101 



or read about, but studied, a personal investi- 

 gation. 



IN ITS RELATIONS to all the universe, nature, 

 man, and God. 



BY THE CHILD by each child individually, not 

 merely by the teacher, or by bright or interested 

 children. 



FROM THE CHILD'S STANDPOINT not merely from 

 the standpoint of the mature mind. 



BY THE TEACHER not merely by the children. 



WITH THE CHILDREN teachers and children fel- 

 low-investigators of truth. 



It may seem that we have given undue prominence, 

 and placed unnecessary emphasis, on definitions; but 

 experience has shown this to be necessary. No matter 

 how earnest the spirit of the teachers, and however 

 honest their intention, the habits and training of a life- 

 time, which have too often made books crutches instead 

 of helps, will assert themselves. Teachers will study, 

 under the guise of nature study, anything and every- 

 thing but nature. They will deliberately shut their 

 eyes to nature, and confine their investigations within 

 the covers of a book. They will cram their pupils' 

 minds full of memorized facts and namjes and classifica- 

 tion, and call that nature study. 



