The Beautiful Summer Season!
In this fourth and last volume of these outdoor books I have taken you into the summer fields and, shall I hope? left you there.
After all, what better thing could I do? And as I leave you there, let me say one last serious word concerning the purpose of such books as these and the large subject of nature-study in general.
I believe that a child’s interest in outdoor life is a kind of hunger, as natural as his interest in bread and butter. He cannot live on bread and butter alone, but he ought not to try to live without them.
He cannot be educated on nature-study alone, but he ought not to be educated without it.
To learn to obey and reason and feel—these are the triple ends of education, and the greatest of these is to learn to feel.
The teacher’s word for obedience; the arithmetic for reasoning; and for feeling, for the cultivation of the imagination, for the power to respond quickly and deeply, give the child the out-of-doors….
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