School Gardening for Little Children

Abstract

THE value of any particular scheme of education for little children depends more on the interest the teacher feels in the subject, and on the sympathy he or she is able to manifest towards the pupils, than on the scheme itself. We think this will be obvious to anyone who peruses the pages of the volume before us. Most children bred in the country have a “garden all to themselves,” but we doubt whether any permanent benefit is derived by them unless their work in it is directed with sympathetic intelligence such as is revealed in Miss Latter's pages. “I have tried,” says the author, “to prove that it is possible to make nature-teaching the central point of the life of a school without detriment to the children; that such teaching gives a real meaning and incentive to all the handwork and leads to a richer and truer appreciation of poetry, pictures and music.

School Gardening for Little Children.

By Lucy R. Latter. Introduction by Prof. P. Geddes. Pp. xxiv + 166. (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Ltd., 1906.) Price 2S. 6d. net.