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to be cultivated; from this the names of objects
arise, their shape and distinction are understood, and
their appearance and quality should be explained.
Three properties, so useful in common intercourse
that nothing can be made or done without them, are
as little studied, except on extraordinary occasions,
as if of no consequence, viz. size, weight, and space.
They should be made familiar; and proportion,
that divine balance of nature, would be better
understood.
In these, children might be exercised as an amuse-
ment, beginning with guessing the length and breadth
of the room, or its height in the same way; and a
measuring wand may be always at hand for the
purpose of ascertaining the truth.
For schools, it would be an agreeable employ-
ment, by way of directing the judgment, to mark
distance on the ground, or height on a wall: and a
general balance might be fixed; objects of weight
produced; the judgment of all taken, and once a
week a prize determined as an encouragement.
to be cultivated; from this the names of objects
arise, their shape and distinction are understood, and
their appearance and quality should be explained.
Three properties, so useful in common intercourse
that nothing can be made or done without them, are
as little studied, except on extraordinary occasions,
as if of no consequence, viz. size, weight, and space.
They should be made familiar; and proportion,
that divine balance of nature, would be better
understood.
In these, children might be exercised as an amuse-
ment, beginning with guessing the length and breadth
of the room, or its height in the same way; and a
measuring wand may be always at hand for the
purpose of ascertaining the truth.
For schools, it would be an agreeable employ-
ment, by way of directing the judgment, to mark
distance on the ground, or height on a wall: and a
general balance might be fixed; objects of weight
produced; the judgment of all taken, and once a
week a prize determined as an encouragement.