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Itard's educative drama repented in the education of little children 153 Gardening and horticulture basis of a method for education of children 155 The child initiated into observation of the phenomena of life and into foresight by way of auto-education 156 Children are initiated into the virtue of patience and into confident expectation, and are inspired with a feeling for nature 159 The child follows the natural way of development of the human race 160 CHAPTER XI MANUAL LABOUR—THE POTTER'S ART, AND BUILDING Difference between manual labour and manual gymnastics 162 The School of Educative Art 163 Archæological, historical, and artistic importance of the vase 164 Manufacture of diminutive bricks and construction of diminutive walls and houses 165 CHAPTER XII EDUCATION OF THE SENSES Aim of education to develop the energies 168 Difference in the reaction between deficient and normal children in the presentation of didactic material made up of graded stimuli 169 Education of the senses has as its aim the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises 173 Three Periods of Séguin 177 CHAPTER XIII EDUCATION OF THE SENSES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DIDACTIC MATERIAL: GENERAL SENSIBILITY: THE TACTILE, THERMIC, BARIC AND STEREOGNOSTIC SENSES Education of the tactile, thermic and baric senses 185 Education of the stereognostic sense 188 Education of the senses of taste and smell 190 Education of the sense of vision 191 Exercises with the three series of cards 199 Education of the chromatic sense 200 Exercise for the discrimination of sounds 203 Musical education 206 Tests for acuteness of hearing 209 A lesson in silence 212 CHAPTER XIV GENERAL NOTES ON THE EDUCATION OF THE SENSES Aim in education biological and social 215 Education of the senses makes men observers and prepares them directly for practical life