The central law is self-effort,--confidence and self-reliance follow.

The spontaneous activities of the children are duly recognised, and the latter decide what to draw, how to draw it, and the materials to be used.

One cannot remain long in the school without observing the absence of that timidity, that haunting fear of making a mistake, which paralyses the minds and bodies of so many of our children.

Under the influence of the Head Teacher the children become acute critics.
Her methods coincide so exactly with those which I have long been advocating, that I give them in her own words-- "'I gave each child an ivy-leaf and said, "Now look well at it." We talked about its peculiarities, looking at it all the time, and then I told them to draw one, still looking back to the leaf from time to time.

Then I examined their drawings.