ABSTRACT
The sense exercises constitute a species of auto-education, which, if these exercises be many times repeated, leads to a perfecting of the child's psychosensory processes. The directress must intervene to lead the child from sensations to ideas, from the concrete to the abstract, and to the association of ideas. A definite and undoubted part of the teacher's work is that of teaching an exact nomenclature. We have in our didactic material a pretty little chest composed of drawers within which are arranged rectangular pieces of stuff in great variety. The directress, after the child has played for a long time with the three sets of solid insets and has acquired a security in the performance of the exercise, takes out all the cylinders of equal height and places them in a horizontal position on the table, one beside the other. The geometric analysis of figures is not adapted to very young children.
