88 Education through Nature 



school, on those rare occasions when there is nothing 

 else to do. 



3. Nature study is first on the program of life; 

 it should be first on the program of the school. 



4. Nature study is the study of original sources; 

 and implies knowledge of things, and the power to 

 manipulate them. 



5. With the knowledge of things and with the ability 

 to manipulate them, come the arts and sciences, the 

 three r's, and geography. 



6. Development must begin at the bottom of the 

 scale not at the top. 



7. In nature study we rise; we do not sink. 



8. Physical development may be promoted by 

 proper manipulation of the object studied. 



9. Mental development may be promoted by proper 

 observation and interpretation of things. 



10. Moral development may be promoted by the 

 proper estimation and appreciation of things. 



11. Knowledge and power are mutually dependent; 

 we cannot get out of a thing what has never been put 

 into it. 



12. Sense perception, thinking, judgment, imagina- 

 tion, and expression are forms of activity. These 

 activities are being trained when properly exercised 

 in connection with things. 



13. The ethical sense is developed by constant 

 discrimination between truth and fiction. 



14. The child, like its mother, nature, is artless. 

 This artlessness is the badge of truth. 



15. Nature cannot be deceived; it is the deceiver 

 who is deceived. 



