" The invariable adaptation of an animal to the life it leads is one of 

 nature's most instructive lessons, and can be discovered and appreciated 

 by every pupil, but never through oral teaching or from reading of 

 books. Setter a child should learn to handle one animal, to see and 

 know its structure and how it lives and moves, than to go through the 

 whole animal kingdom with the best text-book under the best teacher, 

 aided by the best charts ever made. The former would have learned 

 what real knowledge is and how to get it, while the latter would have 



simply learned how to pass at his school examination. " 



ALPHEUS HYATT. 



" Therefore I would, in the name of education, urge students to 

 begin naturally with what interests them, with the near at hand, with 

 the practically important. A circuitous course of study, followed with 

 natural eagerness, will lead to better results than the most logical of 

 programs, if that take no root in the life of the student." 



J. ABTHUR THOMSON, in " The Study of Animal Life," p. 361. 



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