Excerpt from The Bird Book
Science is the green pasture of enthusiasms, and in the study of it there is no denying Shakespeare's dictum, -
"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en."
So if we adopt bird-study as the representative of zoological science, as we seem likely to do, it must be not only because it is fairly illustrative of zoological principles, and because its materials are abundant and easily referred to, but because it is pleasurable to beginners.
Bird-study, or any other special science, is justified in demanding an educational hearing if it contribute generously either to a knowledge of the principles and methods of science in general or to the training of the powers of observation.
As far as possible I have tried to open opportunities for work in both directions, dwelling upon what to see and how to see it, but not neglecting those larger problems which are, after all, the non-personal end of all observation; and I have tried to do this in such a way that the pupils might be led to work independently and intelligently if so minded, or, at the least, to acquire, even if unconsciously, some notion of scientific method.
To keep the nature study free from memorization of any text-book, however good, to deliver it from the incubus of ranking per centum, to put a premium upon the child's own efforts at discovery, is to make the nature work effective.
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