Were You Ever a Child?

Preface

Contents

Were You Ever a Child?

I. The Child

II. The School Building

III. The Teacher

IV. The Book

V. The Magic Theory of Education

VI. The Caste System of Education

VII. The Canonization of Book-Magic

VIII. The Conquest of Culture in America

IX. Smith, Jones and Robinson

X. Employer vs. Trade Unionist

XI. The Goose-Step

XII. The Gary Plan

XIII. Learning to Work

XIV. Learning to Play

XV. First and Last Things

XVI. The Child as Artist

XVII. The Artist as a Child

XVIII. The Drama of Education

XIX. The Drama of Life

XX. Curiosity

XXI. The Right to be Wrong

XXII. Enterprise

XXIII. Democracy

XXIV. Responsibility

XXV. Love

XXVI. Education in 1947 A. D.