Excerpt from Articles Exhibited in the Southern Exposition of 1883: At Louisville, Ky;, From the Museum of U. S. Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior Believing that the true art of teaching, like Shake speare's banished Duke in the forest of Arden, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks Sermons in stones, and good in everything, and remembering how parable and story, in sacred and profane writ, teach by means of animals, plants, and every-day incidents, the articles exhibited by the Bureau of Education are designed to show how the method of nature in teaching has been and should be followed, using the text-book (which is only a concise and imperfect re'sume' of observed facts) as a useful adjunct, but by no means as the chief instrument for the education of the child. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.