For  Hartmann's  purpose  a  large  number  of  questions  were
needed,  and  interests  of  knowledge  must  be  regarded  more
than  those  of  sympathy  or  participation.  To  an  Herbartian
the  former  seems  earlier  and  richer,  but  the  ideal  of  normaliz-
ing a  sphere  of  thought  is  evident.  Concepts  likely  to  be
wanting  in  children  of  that  town  were  excluded  in  favor  of
those  easily  accessible  to  every  child,  yet  those  chosen  were
not  model  or  normal  in  the  sense  that  often  others  as  good
may  have  been  excluded.  The  flying,  singing  lark  may  be
seen  every  day  in  spring  at  Annaberg,  and  if  it  has  not
been  noticed,  the  child  may  be  inert  and  indifferent,  or  its
senses  dull  or  defective,  and  this  would  also  be  the  inference
had  the  swallow  been  chosen.  By  this  method  each  locality
will  find  objects  especially  prominent  and  peculiar  to  it.  A
book  by  E.  Piltz,  entitled  tfber  Naturbeobachtung  des  Schillers
(1882),  and  Sigismund's  Die  Familie  als  Schule  der  Nahir
(1856),  contain  good  lists  of  topics  (the  former  700  of  them)
and  reports  from  similar  tests.  As  a  manufacturing  center  of
passementerie,  and  a  shire  town  and  retail  center,  Annaberg
has  rich  and  poor,  and  its  prosperity  depends  on  changes  in
fashions,  so  that  the  265  children  entering  its  schools  yearly
differ  greatly.  Some  children  were  very  bashful  on  first  enter-
ing school,  used  to  only  the  local  dialect  which  most  teachers
did  not  speak,  but  by  beginning  with  the  easiest  questions  and
talking  of  parents  and  toys  these  difficulties  were  minimized.
