" All that is needed to give the child an impulse to talk 

 is to fill his mind with facts that interest him. You may 

 indeed by discipline, or by appeals to emulation or to the 

 child's desire to please, create an artificial motive. But 

 discipline which does not strengthen a natural impulse to 

 action, appeals to emulation or to the desire to please for 

 the sake of making a pupil do what he has no inclination 

 to do at all, is perverted. What a child does under such 

 infiuences is always done in a half-hearted, perfunctory 

 way.'' 



"The value of work, however, should not be measured 

 by the acquisition of knowledge or the power to express it, 

 but rather by the love and the sympathetic interest 

 awakened in nature and the profound reverence for the 

 design and the protecting care revealed in the works of 

 earth and sky by an all- wise Creator."— Anna E. Mc- 

 GOTERN, B. S., in " Nature Study and Belated Litera- 

 ture." 



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