Primary object lessons, for training the senses and developing the faculties of children .. . NEW YORK •: CINCINNATI •: CHICAGO A M E R1C A N BOOK COMPANY TWO tmn »f«f rvPD A 2467 Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Buotuers,Copjriglit, 1898. by Ella Calkins Lyon Entered, according to Act of Congress, iu the year 18T0, byHARPKR & BROTHERS, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for theSouthern District of New York. All fights reserved. CALK. OBJ. P. 2 I -TO PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Instruction must begin with actual inspection, not with verbaldescripdons of things
Primary object lessons, for training the senses and developing the faculties of children .. . NEW YORK •: CINCINNATI •: CHICAGO A M E R1C A N BOOK COMPANY TWO tmn »f«f rvPD A 2467 Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Buotuers,Copjriglit, 1898. by Ella Calkins Lyon Entered, according to Act of Congress, iu the year 18T0, byHARPKR & BROTHERS, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for theSouthern District of New York. All fights reserved. CALK. OBJ. P. 2 I -TO PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Instruction must begin with actual inspection, not with verbaldescripdons of things. From such inspection it is that certain knowl-edge comes. What is actually seen remains faster in the memorythan description or enumeration a hundred times as often repeated. Thus wrote John Amos Comenius, an exiled teacher of Austria,about the middle of the seventeenth century. And to the introduc-tion of his works Germany is largely indebted for the gieat progress inher schools which commenced during that century. Said the great Swiss educator l*estalozzi at the close of
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