We seek to nourish, to stimulate, to exercise the mind of a child as we do the body.

There are the two main divisions in education--you have those of course ?--the things it is necessary to know, and the things it is necessary to do." "To do?
Mental exercises, you mean ?" "Yes.

Our general plan is this: In the matter of feeding the mind, of furnishing information, we use our best powers to meet the natural appetite of a healthy young brain; not to overfeed it, to provide such amount and variety of impressions as seem most welcome to each child.
That is the easiest part.

The other division is in arranging a properly graduated series of exercises which will best develop each mind; the common faculties we all have, and most carefully, the especial faculties some of us have.

You do this also, do you not ?" "In a way," I said rather lamely.