Exercises for the Improvement of the Senses: For Young Children (Classic Reprint)

The Exercises have been put in the form of ques tions, because the teacher will frequently have occa sion to make use of that form in leading the pupil to an accurate examination of nature, and because that form will indicate most briefly the course which it will be most frequently found advisible to pursue. It must be remembered, however, that nothing is more irritating to a young child than to be set up as a butt to be questioned at; nor is anything more likely to produce a distaste for accurate observation and persevering thought than a constant volley of interrogations. The poor child who is condemned to find answers to unceasing interrogatories, either grows careless, and says anything that comes into his mind, or employs his faculties in evading the subject, concealing his ignorance in a cloud of words, or in vapid commonplace.

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