HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 185 



science. Especially applicable to him is Emerson's 

 saying that " The most important part of a boy's 

 education is that which he gets to and from his 

 way to school." How much of such country boy's 

 relation to natural objects is there in my school ? 



Such questions, it seems to the writer, will be 

 found helpful in bringing out the exact state of 

 affairs in this informal acquaintance with nature 

 as separated from exact systematic science yet per- 

 haps leading to it. As nature study should lead 

 to science, perhaps the best single question to 

 pupil, school, or teacher is, " How much science 

 does our nature study inspire ? " 



Or, from a more practical out-of-the-schoolroom 

 standpoint, how much has your nature study led 

 " to the end," as Professor Hodge has so admirably 

 expressed it, " of doing those things that make life 

 most worth the living ? " 



