CHAPTER X

NATURE IN EDUCATION--AGRICULTURAL LABOUR: CULTURE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS

The savage of the Aveyron 149

Itard's educative drama repented in the education of little children 153

Gardening and horticulture basis of a method for education of children 155

The child initiated into observation of the phenomena of life and into foresight by way of auto-education 156

Children are initiated into the virtue of patience and into confident expectation, and are inspired with a feeling for nature 159

The child follows the natural way of development of the human race 160