| Show HUMAN FOOT PRINT to in the sand the enormous implications of hope or terror involved in such perception are what make the heart of every reader beat with wild emotion if crusoe had seen been the savage first and the tn footprints afterward it would have spoiled all now that every object that ean an be encountered Is IB full of signify ance bance to an and reasoning I 1 mind Is a truth about which too 1 many educators are singularly blind children shut up to a mere mer book knowledge ret get utterly vague ideas from what they read the modern use of pictures of course helps greatly dut Ale tures are ar as nothing to the objects themselves what does a child really take in of the vegetable abl world who does not distinguish at a glance the oak the elm the ash the maple the birch the beech so with the so with the rock strata so with the I 1 I 1 schooners ners stoops sloops brigs barks ships I 1 how blurred and monotonous the world he lives in apart from the these infinitely varying perceptions here her are the data from which alon he can draw any sine sane conclusions would the children could take walks with the arabian dervish and have him show them how to use their eyes and then to draw conclusions under his teaching achins te even the desert would b be the best of sah schools naturally parents want their children 1 t read and appreciate the best beat I 1 lite literature but bot what Is the unfailing 0 of the best beet literature it Is that its writers whether in poetry I 1 or prose have so keen an eye for the implications of truth beauty instruction and inspiration bound up in all the objects about them if the children do not know these objects all the beautiful imagery all the pat illustrations all the delicate humor of the situation are lost on them for ages the wisest I 1 failed to see that the related positions of the rock strata all around them were in reality the liveliest and most entertaining ta ining of romances revealing the tha creation here with a vengeance w was a hray camel of creation I 1 here were sermons on stones 1 not sleepy ones as in many a pulpit but sermons iii inspiring enough to keep it the cori conn Fre gation wide awake lo 10 I 1 Cruso Crus cies ea footprint of a sav r H we ige suddenly and startlingly transil g I 1 icil atod into the footprint of the almighty y 1 Is 15 the teacher then Is the parent worthy of the name who does not try to 1 1 3 stimulate in the mind of the child the perception perc epton of just what the arabian deri vish learned through his own eyes of an invisible camel inthe barren desert 3 frankle said a father to his little boy who could not read hand me the morning paper there were two newspapers lying in im the table one of 0 which the little i hap selected are you sure this la 13 it yes tes sir air T how do you know it I 1 1 I smelt it sir was his Is answer i there Is a smell about a fresh moist paper such as an old one doe snot have i here was a dodge even the fatter father was I 1 not up to as good in the dark as in the light he that has a nose let him smell and reason on it waz was the little fel fellowes lowas philosophy the dervish would hav patted him on the head I 1 |
