90 HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 



ground out in the same style. A peck took the 

 same course as a carload. 



If you say that nature study is merely the 

 study of nature (and that is natural science 

 whether for the university or the kindergarten), 

 and that all this talk about a distinction in the 

 terms nature study and elementary science is bosh 

 and you do not care for that, then I say too : 

 "And neither do I." 



You may call your systematizing and your 

 generalizing all the way from your Ph.D. down 

 to the little fellow whom you are helping to put 

 on his rubber shoes, you may call it nature study 

 or what you please. You may demonstrate to 

 the one that the centralizing tendency in the 

 nebulae is the same that draws the apple to the 

 ground. You may draw as many diagrams and 

 make as many x, y, z's, as you please. You may 

 classify and arrange and evolutionize to your 

 heart's content. You may even dilute the same 

 method and apply it to the little fellow if you 

 want to, and as you pull on the second overshoe, 

 you may tell him that he has two feet and the 

 Tom-turkey gobbling outside the window has the 

 same number, and the chicadee the same, and 

 then you can inform him, if you are determined 



