Simpler Methods
A return to simpler methods will be appreciated by the children
and youth. Work in the garden and field will be an agreeable change
from the wearisome routine of abstract lessons to which the young
minds should never be confined. To the nervous child or youth, who
finds lessons from books exhausting and hard to remember, it will be
especially valuable. There is health and happiness for him in the study
of nature; and the impressions made will not fade out of his mind,
for they will be associated with objects that are continually before his
eyes.—
Counsels to Teachers, 187
(1913).
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