Little Nature Studies for Little People, Vol. 2

Excerpt from Little Nature Studies for Little People, Vol. 2: From the Essays of John Burroughs When Little Nature Studies was first edited it was designed only as a book to be placed in the hands of children in the first year's work at school, as an aid to the teacher to create and cultivate in her pupils a love for nature, and to induce in them the naturalist's careful method of observation. It was presumed that the child would incidentally learn to read while learning to observe and think, since the simple monosyllabic sentences of John Burroughs's elegant diction unconsciously carried with them all the simplicity and other desirable elements so eagerly sought by professional manufacturers of first-reader and primer reading-matter combined with the yet more desirable qualities of profound insight and masterful strength. As education progresses in our country, as the public mind awakens to the importance of managing a child's time in school with thrift and in such manlier that his ability may be conserved, as educators acquire a quickened pedagogical sense, the inane puerility of the reading-matter forced upon children in the last few decades will, more and more, arouse contempt and aggressive opposition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.