Frontmatter Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Introduction Bringing Education to Life and Life to Education: Contemporary Relevance of Bailey's Nature-Study "It Is Spirit": The Genesis of The Nature-Study Idea Note on the Text The Nature-Study Idea Major Sections Restored from the First Edition From Part I, Chapter VII: The Agricultural Phase of Nature-Study Part I, Chapter VIII: Review From Part III: Inquiries Reviews of The Nature-Study Idea Related Writings Note on the Selections How a Squash Plant Gets Out of the Seed. (1896) What Is Nature-Study? The Bailey-Beal Debate (1897-1904) Nature-Study on the Cornell Plan (1901) The Common Schools and the Farm-Youth (1907) When the Birds Nested (1916) The Science Element in Education (1918) The Humanistic Element in Education (1918) Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index | 
