Excerpt from A Companion to Blackie's Tropical Readers, Books I and II: Containing Suggestions for Experiments and Practical WorkThe publication of the Tropical Readers was a notable effort to make our Elementary Education more practical, by using, in the instruction of children dwelling in the tropics, what is familiar to them in animal, vegetable, and social life, and so arousing interest and stimulating observation. The books serve their purpose admirably, and it is some testimony to their success that a need for amplification in some directions has been felt. This Supplement will go far to supply this need. It will help to build the bridge - one of the most necessary and difficult of bridges - between schoolroom and textbook teaching on the one hand, and on the other, the outside things on which children need to be trained to exercise observation for the development of their faculties as well as for the increase of their knowledge. There is nothing more common in Inspectors' Reports than the complaint that the "Science Teaching" (which is simple, and liable to be misunderstood by being so grandly named) "needs better practical illustration."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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