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Languages needed to be overthrown/ 7 and he 

 continues: "What is the chief aim of educa- 

 tion ? How should the mental training fitted 

 to produce the capacities which go to make an 

 educated man begin ? First of all by teaching 

 him how to observe and by making him enjoy 

 the power of observation. The attention of 

 the child should from the earliest years be 

 directed to external nature. His observation 

 should be alert and it should be exact. Along 

 with this he should know how to use language, 

 to know the precise difference between the 

 meanings of various words apparently similar 

 to be able to convey accurately what he wishes 

 to say/' Then, after distinguishing between 

 the world of Nature and that of man, he dis- 

 cusses how the time available for education 

 is to be divided between these two spheres, 

 urging the need for plenty of knowledge of 

 both to produce a capable and highly finished 



