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If you really have long ago I attended, in the high school assemblyan exhibition of the work of the grade schools in own. As I entered the hall, a supervising teacher forward and said, "I am so glad you came; I know ill be interested in everything, but I want especially ow you what we have done in nature study, I know re interested in 'such things' (sic)." d, indeed, I was interested, and proud too of the Decimens. ren't you glad that our schools are doing so good as not diplomatic, I know, from a social standpoint Tere, here; what are you thinking about? This nature isn't it beautiful?" es, it is beautiful drawing, neat writing, correct lization and punctuation," I hesitatingly equivocated, picked up a prose paraphrase of Bryant's " Fringed an," decorated with original" drawings. There it the end even a little angel with wings, and an r with a chain gracefully twined around it. Hope blossoming within my heart, Then came Emerson's beautiful fable of "The Mou tain and the Squirrel." The mountain and the squirrel And the former called the latter "Little Prig;" You are doubtless very big. I didn't read the rest, but I am sure the mounta backed out of the fight, if I may judge from the attitu of the squirrel and the expression on its face. It w artistic, and certainly artistically realistic from the child standpoint. Then appeared "Seaside and Wayside" stories reto with drawings, almost as good as the originals. Perhaps the most attractive was the work in wat colors. A bouquet of roses painted by a child eig years of age was indeed remarkable, and so I went ov the drawings of daisies, maple keys, wild geranium dogs, and horses. I felt just a tinge of disappointme when I saw that the flowers had been drawn in the wint term, some with the aid of outlines on the sheets, a had been colored ad libitum or by the direction of t teacher. But nevertheless it was all good work in drawing a language, most of it having been made from outlines a books, while only a few samples had been made direct from nature. The trouble was that I was talking to the natu supervisor and not to the teacher of drawing or of la guage, and my questioner was persistent. She repeate Don't you think this nature work is good?" And so I was forced to state, as I do to you, that seems to me that the mere drawing of natural objec and writing about them, even if from the objects ther selves, isn't necessarily nature study. Even a talent f original seeing, a love of natural objects may be at lea stunted by the requirements of drawing and writing. T wintergreen seemed to be pretty nearly all castor o judging by the taste. You can correlate nature stu in this manner till there isn't any nature study left. Professor Hodge in his "Nature Study and Life" like especially that word life in the title) tells us regar ing the experience of the children in rearing plants. No skilled gardener can even tell, much less wri down, a hundredth part of what he knows about plants It was thought at first that the children might induced to keep diaries or records of their plants, givi just what they did and just how fast the plants gre but it was found that their writings were of little valu and were even thought to act as a chill to the spontaneo interests of some of the children. Some children have a po sion to write, while in others the very thought of writi seems to benumb every impulse." The author's italics a expressive. But if you must correlate nature study and langua exercises and there are some teachers who will persi in it-never lose sight of the original-seeing natu study. It is bad for the wintergreen anyway and y will surely "swamp" it in an over proportion of cast oil. 1. A rare find! They can be for a big sum! istaken identity. He thought niature. His friends at home rom his pockets, finally connot true Angoras. And no trary on the part of that cityoras out of skunks. Skunks persisted in being. sion to examine several hunngaged in a contest of natureg. Please note that it was drawing not a contest on e study. was a particularly attractive n one school. Here's the the pink string and opened the a and the pink tissue paper written only on one side of the h alone was enough to make to an editor. What beautiful I am especially an advocate of it was so perfectly legible. It m. And the capitalization and t. Then, too, what beautiful hild whose letter I first picked After my hard work over 1 aside, this lot was indeed read thus enjoyed about a half p over me a feeling that I had i that last one, and not so long ed them with keener interest ent. How could so many chilrtain facts with a clearness so bed them in expressions so simiEighty of them, and all cut at bias was really bright and that. t two dozen my mind recalled Waterbury where I saw a coil of nd reappear as a stream of glited around in a "hopper" and near and yet so far, and so much mistaken. In sadness I laid them aside. Next I picked up an unattractive letter written on the leaves of a pocket note-book. The drawing that accompanied it was crude and the paper was soiled by fingermarks. With difficulty I read it, but I was fascinated as I deciphered the story of a boy's seaside investigation of the fiddler crab. He wanted to know how they lived underground; what they did; what food they ate; what kind of cozy quarters they occupied. He made inquiries of the fishermen. No one knew. He said, "I'll find out if it takes week." He borrowed pick, shovel, and crowbar. He went to work and he found out. Then he wrote the story as he sat beside the hole that he had dug after several hours' hard work. He made the drawing after careful watching of the living object. He wrote the article on the field of battle, where the weapon was a spade, the enemy a crab. I was sorry that I had not a basketful of prizes to give that boy because he wrote his letter for the love of it, and not for a reward, of which he knew nothing. The story of a little girl's watching the sexton beetles burying a dead snake hour after hour, with her little rocking-chair and parasol, in the broiling hot sun," as her mother expressed it in a letter written without the child's knowledge, showed nearly as much determination to find out things, and the description was good enough for second prize. The drawing like a huge letter S was explained to be "the snake;" two little rings like miniature pennies, were explained to be "the beetles." It was charming. I found some others nearly as good, which lost high rating by only a slight deficiency of the right spirit; such letters were a prize in themselves, but I am sorry to say that in numbers they were small. The greater part showed too much correlation of language-work and drawing. The nature study, if indeed there ever was any, had been buried out of sight. Yet many accompanying letters from parents and teachers showed that the importance of nature study was fully appreciated. Thus, you see, there is danger of correlating nature study until it is annihilated. You can't taste the wintergreen. Secondly, there is danger of thinking that you have some nature study and some drawing when you really have CLASS ROOM. none. You have put the castor oil in a tumbler slightly perfumed with wintergreen. by t mad There is a third danger in deluding yourself into a belief that you the ente WARDROBE coun .ende ENTRANCE have nature study tryin She where there is not a ves tige of it. You have tion So jects in certain school recor work. The bottle of liber: wintergreen was on the state CLASS ROOM CABINET CLOBET J.T. W. JENNINGS ARCHI shelf from which you forgot to take it when you administered the dose. "But do you mean to say," inquires the reader, "that we shall not correlate nature study with languagework and drawing?" |