child-growth

Updated: June 8, 2025

He became a district school-teacher, and so far as we know, was the very first man to publicly advocate nature study as a distinctive means of child-growth. He taught his children to observe; then he gave lectures on elementary botany; he studied and he wrote, and he worked at the microscope. And he became blind.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8