HOW TO TEACH CHILDEN TO DRAW.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13052, 11 March 1911, Page 3

HOW TO TEACH CHILDEN TO DRAW.

The modern idea of .education is that it is a process whose object is to "bring out" and "bring up" the best of. the qualities and abilities that arc lying dormant in .the child. This has had a wonderful effect, in making school a pleasure! to the average child, and in most cases at the present day it could not be said that they go "unwillingly." The latter-day method is especially shown in the teaching of drawing to young children. Instead of being forced to copy a coll'ction of uninteresting models which do not in the least appeal to their ideas either of interest or beauty, the attempt is made to draw them along the natural linn: of their own abilities and teach them to improve tlioir innate and intuitive prnrers. It is to be- borne in mind ihat -a.ll children draw, but the tsnds-no' is apt to be. cramped and destroyed by to.o early attempts to introduce mere- technical teaching.—Hetty Smith, in the January number of "The Baby World."