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272 The Century of the Child
In my ideal school, mathematics will be
learnt in winter, as it is suitable for the cold
and clear winter air. In spring and in au-
tumn, nature, out of doors, in nature itself, will
be studied, not each department of nature as
a special subject. An insight into geology,
botany, and the animal world will be attained
in their close natural union. The scholar will
learn separate objects through the actual ob-
servation of life. In the text-book of life they
will gain in its broad outlines a combined
sketch of what they have acquired through
intellectual processes. On rainy days they
will construct for themselves in writing and
in drawing a general sketch of what they have
seen. General culture does not mean know-
ing the number of stamens or the number of
articulations of a hundred flowers or skele-
tons. What educates and acts on the feelings
and imagination, on thought and character,
too, for that matter, is observing and combin-
ing natural phenomena; the ability to follow
the laws of life and development in the natu-
ral world about us. The last member in the
scheme of development is man. So the study
of man from the standpoint of physiology and
hygiene, should come last; consideration for
the psychology of the child, urges too, that
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