In many schools a lesson is given on Form and Color at least once a
week. The different forms should be kept in a box, in which there should
be also squares of cardboard, showing the various colors. This apparatus
should, however, be amply extended. Pieces of silk or colored paper
should be kept in another box, and colored wools wound on pieces of
cardboard show the colors nicely.
THE OBJECT OF THE LESSON.--The object of the lesson is not simply to
teach the shape or color of one particular piece of wood, or cardboard,
but to enable the child to distinguish the same shape or color whenever
it sees an example of it. Thus the child is helped to observe and
compare, and its interest in life is strengthened as it learns with joy
to find out things for itself.