The First Book of Botany: Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of Children

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D. Appleton and Company, 1873 - 202 ページ
 

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201 ページ - It is but rarely that a school-book appears which is at once so novel in plan, so successful in execution, and so suited to the general want, as to command universal and unqualified approbation, but such has been the case with Miss Youmans
viii ページ - ... in the country, or was it simply lessons in the school ? — A. He left them to collect for themselves ; but he visited his parish daily, when the children used to come up to him, and bring the plants they had collected ; so that the lessons went on all the week round. There was only one day in the week on which definite instruction was given to the class ; but on Sunday afternoon he used to allow the senior class, and those who got marks at the examinations, to attend at his house. . . . Q....
vii ページ - I have thought that it might be done very easily ; that this deficiency might be easily remedied. Q. What are your ideas on the subject ? — A. My own ideas are chiefly drawn from the experience of my father-in-law, the late Professor Henslow, Professor of Botany, at Cambridge. He introduced botany into one of the lowest possible class of schools, — that of village labourers' children in a remote part of Suffolk.

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