266 THE YOUNG 



In whichever branch the person chose s 

 to work, and as a study of plants and 

 flowers confers as many pleasures upon 

 its devotees as any other. Miss Becker 

 tells us that some of the happiest hours 

 she has spent has been while forming 

 a collection of dried plants. This 

 branch of Science is almost entirely 

 neglected in our national educa- 

 tion. It is as desirable that we 

 should know something of Botany • 

 as it is that we should know some- 

 thing of Grammar. How is it we 

 cannot have regular classes taught by 

 competent teachers ? Not those dismal 

 moonshine affairs where the boys are 

 taken into one room and the girls into 

 another — like separate cages for differ- 

 ent animals at the Zoological Gardens — 

 and the teacher telling a beautiful story 

 about " male and female ferns," not to 

 say anything of the "lessons" that I 

 could mention much more ridiculous. 

 A knowledge of Natural History should 

 be one of the first qualifications for a 

 school-master or teacher ; and brothers 

 and sisters should come and sit side 

 by side and receive the same lesson. 

 Separated as they are now there is no 

 restraint put upon the moral conduct 

 of either ; and their mixture in the 

 same class would be of mutual benefit 

 to both, especially to the boys. 



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