The Kindergarten magazine . d unthinkingly, , slavishobedience to the rules and directions of anybody, of Froelnrl aslittle as of any one else. And I wish that the manner of .study-ing, as above described, should be received under the same re-striction. It is, no doubt, teeming with suggestions to himwho loves and understands something of nature and life, andknows how to incite his pupils to follow after natural phenomenaand data of life in an intelligent manner. Suggestiveness is allto be expected from general information. Application to par-ticular circumstances must be made by every stu
The Kindergarten magazine . d unthinkingly, , slavishobedience to the rules and directions of anybody, of Froelnrl aslittle as of any one else. And I wish that the manner of .study-ing, as above described, should be received under the same re-striction. It is, no doubt, teeming with suggestions to himwho loves and understands something of nature and life, andknows how to incite his pupils to follow after natural phenomenaand data of life in an intelligent manner. Suggestiveness is allto be expected from general information. Application to par-ticular circumstances must be made by every student Nevertheless it may be possible to show a way how toapply the above information to particular kinds of attempt to do this, shall be made in the next numlx*r ofthe The plan will l>c to slu)wthe Froebelian way of studying and teaching nature, as thestarting point and foundation of all eilucation, and how itcan be applieil to American country .schools. A. II. AND CUTTING. A NEW SCHEME OUTLINED. BACHING in the drawing depart-ments of primar}^ schools in thepast few years has shown me thegreat difficulty in getting childrento draw geometric figures mechan-ically. The method seemed so compli-cated, that it was no soonerlearned than forgotten. Fre-quently, to ray chagrin, I wouldfind the children unable to repeat, independently, the exer-cise on the following day. I concluded, either I must be a very poor teacher, or Iwas using a very poor method. Of course I could not believethe former, so my indignation fell on the latter and I deter-mined to find some method which would simplify this drawing I could get any regular geometric figure, bydividing the circumference of a circle into as many equal partsas there are sides to the required figure and connecting thepoints of division ; all the divisions being mechanical exceptfifths and sevenths which must be freehand. For fourths andeighths I simply bisec
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