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Excerpt from Easy Experiments in Physical Science: For Oral Instruction in Common Schools It is coming to be very generally believed by educators that one of the most important aims of primary instruction should be to discipline the child to habits of quick and accurate observation, and to the power of making simple but correct inferences from the facts which his senses reveal. Surely this result can be reached more easily by means of those facts which nature communicates through the senses than by subjects which have no natural dependence upon material forms; and hence the superior adaptation of the simple facts of physical science to the wants of common-school instruction. But the only way to strengthen mind is to make it work. If the senses arc to be developed and disciplined, the child must he allowed, and, if need be, compelled, to use its senses for himself. The teacher is to guide him, but not to carry him. His mind is to he directed toward material things, and taught to see their forms and characters as they themselves present them. The instructor is to be his guide, but Nature is herself to be his teacher. The intelligent teachers of common-schools are eagerly asking how can this theory he wrought into practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.