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CONDENSED Volume 1 Part 3. Chapter 2II.—THE CHILDREN HAVE NO SELF-COMPELLING POWER Some years ago I was accustomed to hear, ‘Habit is ten natures,’ delivered from the pulpit on at least one Sunday out of four. I had at the time just begun to teach, and was young and enthusiastic in my work. It was […]

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 3. Chapter 1 PART III‘Habit is Ten Natures’ I.—EDUCATION IS BASED UPON NATURAL LAW A Healthy Brain.—What I desire to set before the reader is a method of education based upon natural law. In the first place, we have considered some of the conditions to be observed with a view to keep

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 14 XIV.—THE CHILDREN REQUIRE COUNTRY AIR Every one knows that the breathing of air… is the essential condition of vigorous life and of a fine physique; also, that whatever produces heat, whether it be animal heat, or the heat of fire, candle, gas-lamp, produces that heat at the expense of

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 13 XIII.—‘RED INDIAN’ LIFE Scouting.—Baden Powell’s little book about Scouting set us upon a new track. Hundreds of families make joyous expeditions, far more educative than they dream, wherein scouting is the order of the day. But every family should possess Scouting in default of the chance of going on

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 12 XII.—WALKS IN BAD WEATHER Winter Walks as necessary as Summer Walks.—If the children are to have what is quite the best thing for them, they should be two or three hours every day in the open air all through the winter, say an hour and a half in the

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 11 XI.—OUT-OF-DOOR GAMES, ETC. The bright hours fly by; and there is still at least one lesson on the programme, to say nothing of an hour or two for games in the afternoon. The thought of a lesson is uninviting after the discussion of much that is more interesting, and,

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 10 X.—THE CHILD AND MOTHER-NATURE The Mother must refrain from too much Talk.—Does so wide a programme alarm the mother? Does she with dismay see herself talking through the whole of those five or six hours, and, even at that, not getting through a tithe of the teaching laid out

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 9 IX.—OUT-OF-DOOR GEOGRAPHY This pleasant earth of ours is not to be overlooked in the out-of-door education of the children. ‘How do you get time for so much?’ ‘Oh, I leave out subjects of no educational value; I do not teach geography, for instance,’ said an advanced young theorist with

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 8 VIII.—THE CHILD SHOULD BE MADE FAMILIAR WITH NATURAL OBJECTS But what is the use of being ‘a very observant child,’ if you are not put in the way of things worth observing? Now take up a natural object, it does not matter what, and you are studying one of

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 7 VII.—THE CHILD GETS KNOWLEDGE BY MEANS OF HIS SENSES Watch a child standing at gaze at some sight new to him—a plough at work, for instance—and you will see he is as naturally occupied as is a babe at the breast; he is, in fact, taking in the intellectual