Observation can be improved easily and quickly. This is one of the
faculties which is used so habitually that we have overlooked its
importance and almost entirely neglected its improvement. The following
pages will give some tests by which you can determine the child's
power of observation and which will convince you of the need of its
development, and also suggest some simple games by means of which you
and your children can improve this important mental faculty.
It is a great aid to observation to have the ability to place upon the
brain a physical eye picture which is so clear and distinct that later,
when you reproduce the picture in the mind's eye, you still see the
details accurately. To develop this power of visualization will help
to develop the ability to observe. The exercises in the development
of observation which follow will also improve the visual power of the
mind's eye.