AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



(2) The school garden in art work provides 

 problems in design, color, form, grouping and 

 composition; and studies of raw materials, such 

 as stuifs, dyes and paints. 



(3) The school garden suggests topics for 

 language work whether in composition, spelling 

 or writing. It teaches appreciation of the best 

 literature and makes intelligible many of the 

 references in metaphor, and parable. It en- 

 riches the child's mind by bringing to his notice 

 some of the best stories, essays, and poems that 

 have been written. 



(4) The school garden, in mathematical studies, 

 gives reality to principles which, except to the 

 mathematical mind, are vague and difficult to 

 grasp. It offers opportunities for practical work 

 in number, in elementary geometry, in surveying, 

 in all kinds of measuring and for many compu- 

 tations whether of the farm, the shop or the bank. 

 The solution of each of these problems carries 

 the child a step in advance and, unsolved, they 

 halt and baffle him in doing those things in which 

 he is vitally concerned. 



(5) The school garden in physics and chemistry 

 also requires problems of number as well as ex- 

 planations of the natural forces and the laws by 

 which they govern the life or affect the labor that 

 belongs to the plant world. 



(6) The school garden associates itself with 

 household or domestic science as the provider of 

 the raw material of food and textiles, and suggests 



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