The Teaching Botanist A Manual Of Information Upon Botanical Instruction Together With Outlines And Directions For A Comprehensive Elementary Course

Excerpt from The Teaching Botanist: A Manual of Information Upon Botanical Instruction; Together With Outlines and Directions for a Comprehensive Elementary Course IT is plain to all who read the Signs of the times that we in these days are seeing the beginning of a great movement toward the introduction of the Sciences into general Education. The chief obstacle to their rapid utilization, however, next to the conservatism of educa tional bodies, is the widespread ignorance of how to use them economically. In their modern form they are too new, and their advance has been too rapid, to let them grow gradually into the framework of our educational system, and they are forcing themselves in upon it from the outside. It becomes, therefore, a problem, and a difficult one, how best to assimilate them with what is already there, and as well how to present them in their optimum value and with the greatest possible economy. This book is an attempt to face squarely these issues for the Science of Botany. 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.

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Excerpt from The Teaching Botanist a Manual of Information Upon Botanical Instruction Including Outlines and Directions for a Synthetic General Course This is a book of ideals. In its pages I have tried to set forth the chief factors involved in the best of botani cal teaching, well believing that it is good for each per son to hitch his wagon to a star. It is true that we may never be able to attain to these, any more than to other ideals, for all alike they are veritable will 0' the wisps which waft themselves farther away just as we reach forth to grasp them. However, 'this matters but little, since man is made in such fashion that pursuit holds more joy than possession, and visions more charm than realities. That we cannot attain to our ideals is, therefore, the least of objections against them. They have, how ever, at least one positive merit. They can serve as a perennial balm for the soul, or a kind of a Spiritual ra dium, sending forth a perpetual emanation to keep work and life aglow. Besides, they may be made to do service in practical ways, as definite goals to be aimed at, or as standards of value to which we may point those objectors who question the aim of our efforts. So, from all points of View ideals are in place, and in generous measure, in a book that is given to teaching. 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.

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