10 HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 

 And again : 



Perhaps nine out of ten teachers, if asked what is the 

 advantage of Nature Study to the child, would say that it 

 consists in the training of the observation through the senses. 



This book refers to success with children in the 

 field ; but again, a writer in POPULAR EDUCATOR 

 concludes an extended article on " Field Work in 

 Nature Study," with these startling words : " On 

 the whole, we have found that more real good 

 can come from taking Nature in to the pupils 

 than from taking pupils out to Nature." 



I look at Lange's " Handbook of Nature 

 Study," and read the first paragraph of the intro- 

 duction : 



The study of Nature with a view to understand the rela- 

 tions of plant and animal life to the welfare and happiness 

 of man, needs no justification in this age of scientific agri- 

 culture and applied science. 



I wonder what astronomy, grandest of all 

 sciences, physics, chemistry, mineralogy, and 

 geology have done, to be left out in the cold, and 

 attention restricted to plant and animal life I 

 And is " scientific agriculture " and applied science 

 our sole justification for a knowledge of nature ? 

 But read the next sentence : 



