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Object Lessons: Making, Knowing, and Growing Things

object lessons were a key element of nineteenth-century education based on learning things with things. During an object lesson, children’s attention were directed to a specific object, their interest usually excited by a particularly compelling aspect of its nature or behavior. They were encouraged to closely inspect and manipulate the object in order to develop their investigative and analytical skills, and then discuss their findings so as to furnish their scientific vocabulary. In this way, object lessons offered practical examples of the ways in which the trained eye, the skillful hand, the discerning senses, and the inquiring mind could uncover the secrets