BY

AUTHOR OF “SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT,” “THE SUPER RACE,” “WAGES IN THE UNITED STATES,” “SOCIAL SANITY,” “REDUCING THE COST OF LIVING,” etc.

INTRODUCTION

I The Critical Spirit and the Schools

II Some Harsh Words from the Inside

III A Word from Huxley and Spencer

IV Some Honest Facts

V Have We Fulfilled the Object of Education?

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER I

I Can There Be a New Basis?

II Social Change

III Keeping Up with the Times

IV Education in the Early Home

V City Life and the New Basis for Education

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER II

I The New School Machinery

II Rousseau Versus a Class of Forty

III The Fallacious “Average”

IV The Five Ages of Childhood

V Age Distribution in One Grade

VI Shall Child or Subject Matter Come First?

VII The Vicious Practices of One “Good” School

VIII Boys and Girls—The One Object of Educational Activity

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER III

I Child Growth—A Primary Factor in Child Life

II Children Need Health First

III Play as a Means to Growth

IV Some Things Which a Child Must Learn

V What Schools Must Provide to Meet Child Needs

VI The Educational Work of the Small Town

VII The Educational Problems of an Industrial Community

VIII Beginning with Child Needs

CHAPTER IV

I The Kindergarten

II Translating the Three R’s

III Playing at Mathematics

IV A Model English Lesson

V An Original Fairy Story

VI The Crow and the Scarecrow

VII School and Home

VIII Breaking New Ground

IX The School and the Community

X New Keys for Old Locks

XI School and Shop

XII Half a Chance to Study

XIII Thwarting Satan in the Summer Time

XIV Sending the Whole Child to School

XV Smashing the School Machine

XVI All Hands Around for An Elementary School

XVII From a Blazed Trail to a Paved Highway

CHAPTER V

I The Responsibility of the High School

II An Experiment in Futures

III The Success Habit

IV The Help-Out Spirit

V Joining Hands with the Elementary Schools

VI The Abolition of “Mass Play”

VII Experimental Democracy

VIII Breaching the Chinese Wall of High School Classicism

IX An Up-to-Date High School

X From School to Shop and Back Again

XI Fitting the High School Graduate Into Life

XII The High School as a Public Servant

CHAPTER VI

I Lowville and the Neighborhood

II Lowville Academy

III The School’s Opportunity

IV Field Work as Education

V Real Domestic Science

VI One Instance of Success

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CHAPTER VII

I “Co-operation” and “Progressivism"

II An Educational Creed

III Vitalizing the Kindergarten

IV Regenerating the Grades

V Popularizing High School Education

VI A City University

VII Special Schools for Special Classes

VIII Special Schools for Special Children

IX Playground and Summer Schools

X Mr. Dyer and the Men Who Stood With Him

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CHAPTER VIII

I An Experiment in Social Education

II An Appeal for Applied Education

III Solving a Local Problem

IV Domestic Science Which Domesticates

V Making Commercial Products in the Grades

VI A Real Interest in School

VII The Mothers’ Club

VIII The Disappearance of “Discipline"

IX The Spirit of Oyler

CHAPTER IX

I The Call of the Country

II Making Bricks with Straw

III Making the One-Room Country School Worth While

IV Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse

V A Fairyland of Rural Education

VI The Task of the Country School

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CHAPTER X

I Miss Belle

II Going to Work Through the Children

III Beginning on Muffins

IV Taking the Boys in Hand

V “Busy Work” as an Asset

VI Marguerite

VII Winning Over the Families

CHAPTER XI

I Fitting Schools to Needs

II Getting the Janitor in Line

III The Department of Agriculture

IV A Short Course for Busy People

V Letting the Boys Do It

VI A Look at the Domestic Science

VII How It Works Out

VIII Theoretical and Practical

CHAPTER XII

I A Dream of Empire

II Finding the Way

III Jem’s Father

IV Club Life Militant

V Canning Clubs

VI Recognition Day for Boys and Girls

VII Teaching Grown-Ups to Read

VIII George Washington, Junior

IX A Step Toward Good Health

X Theory and Practice[28]

XI A People Coming to Its Own

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CHAPTER XIII

THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW EDUCATION

I The Standard of Education

II Standardization Was a Failure

III Education as Growth

IV Child Needs and Community Needs

V The Final Test of Education