2. The images the children have acquired and the inferences they have
made are used as stepping stones to higher and broader views.

3. So far as it is possible, each child is to discover facts for himself
and make original inferences.

4. He understands the limits of children's power to observe and the
demand on their part for glimpses into, to them, the great unknown. So
he tells them stories of those things which lie beyond their horizon, in
order to excite their wonder, intensify their love for the objects that
surround them, and make them more careful observers. In this way a
hunger and thirst for books is created.

5. He watches carefully the interests of each child, adapting his
teachings to the differences in age and personality.

6. Some questions are left unanswered in order to stimulate that healthy
curiosity which can be satisfied only by persistent study--the study
that begets courage and confidence.

7. He makes farm work and farm life full of intensely interesting
problems, ever keeping in mind that the things of which the common
environments of common lives are made up are as well worthy of study as
are those which lie beyond.

Uncle Robert's enthusiasm has for its prime impulse a boundless faith in
human progress, brought about by a knowledge of childhood and its
possibilities.

He believes that every normal child, under wise and loving guidance, may