Whatever he may have in hand,--be it the preparation for acting a new scene, or the interpretation of a new Folk Song or Morris Dance, or the invention of a new school game, or the thinking out some new way of treating a "subject,"-- he is sure to find that knowledge is needed if he is to achieve success; and his desire for knowledge is therefore continually stimulated by the demands that his own initiative and activity are ever making upon him.
But it is in the "Nature lesson" that the inquisitive instinct finds in Utopia its freest scope and its fullest opportunity.

To one who had persuaded himself of the innate stupidity of the average English child, a Nature lesson in Utopia would come as a revelation.

He would learn for the first time that, far from being innately stupid, the average English child has it in him to reach a very high level of keenness, acuteness, and intellectual activity.

Whenever a lesson is given on a natural object, _e.g._ a flower or a leaf, every child has a specimen and a lens.

The object is then closely and carefully observed, in the hope of discovering features in it which might escape the unobservant.