Book 2 — Index

abridged editions, 183 Abt Vogler, 324 academic solution of educational problems, the, 254, 288 Academy (French), 252, 256 Across the Bridges, by A. Paterson, 118, 119, 300 act of knowing, 99, 254, 271, 292, 298; knowledge acquired by, 291 Adams, Professor John, 112 æsthetic sense, 43; open to disaster, 56 affections, mis-directed, 58 Albrecht, Dr., 162 allusions, literary, 264 Ambleside, 212, 217 Ambleside Geography, The, 226-229 Amyot, on history, 273 anarchy, 69 ‘Angelic Doctor,’ The, 284 ‘aniseed drops,’ educational, 302 aphasia, our national, 269 ‘appetency,’ 56, 107 apprenticeship, 328 architecture, 77, 217, 220 arithmetic, 59, 73, 141, 151, 152, 230-233 Armstrong, Dr., 280 Arnold, Dr., 257, 340, 341 Arnold, Matthew, 239, 252, 258, 309, 315, 342 art, xxx, 14, 43, 45, 63, 154, 157, 254; teaching of, 213-217, 275; is of the spirit, 214; power of appreciating, 214; reverent knowledge of, 214 Arthur, King, 28 assimilation, 259 astronomy, 50, 220, 222 Astrophel, 100 athleticism and mental activity, 72 atmosphere, education is an, xxix, 94-99 attention, 259; a habit, 100; a natural function, 171; how secured, 13-15, 17, 28, 45, 76, 255; must not have crutches, 258; power of, present in children, xxxi, 7, 14, 18, 76, 154, 171, 255, 263, 290; the hall-mark of an educated person, 99; the prime agent in education, 16, 76, 247; weakened by efforts to memorise, 17; unfailing, 17, 171, 291 Aus Meinem Leben (Goethe), 161 Austen, Jane, 16, 77, 193, 294 authority, natural, necessary and fundamental, xxix, 68-78, 97, 134; deputed, 68; the condition of liberty, 69; order, outcome of, 69; chastened, 71; vide self-authority average boy, the, 300, 310, 312 Bacon, 7, 29, 61, 105, 124, 143 Barnaby Rudge, 259, 282 ‘Baron of Bradwardine,’ the, 312 Bergson, Henri, 173 Bernhardi, F. von, 3 Bible, The, 143, 186, 272, 273; in curriculum, 30, 40, 61-65, 160-165, 254; fine English of, 160, 309; method of, lesson, 159-169; and critical teaching, 163 Big Mesh, The system of the, 344 biology, 221 Blake, William, 79 Board of Education, 250 body, well-being of, 46; a sound, 189 Bompas Smith, Professor, 27 Bonnot, 327 books, many, xxx, 7, 12, 15, 30, 59, 76, 267, 271, 303; living, xxx, 303; worthy, 12, 18, 26, 52, 75, 104, 191, 260, 268; delight in, 28; text-books, 50, 53, 105, 256, 263, 271, 275; difficulty of choosing, 187, 248; choice of, 248, 272; P.U.S., tested by examinations, 248; ‘classes’ and ‘masses’ must read the same, 264; about books, 341 Bosanquet, Bernard, 149 Bose, Professor Sir Jagadis Chandra, 95 botany, 220, 221 brain, adaptation of, to habits, xxx, 101; thought not a function of, 2, 4, 260; subject to same conditions as body, 38; should not know fatigue, 38; mind takes care of, 330 British Association, The, 222, 251 British Museum, The, 77, 175, 176, 274 Browning, Robert, 100, 133, 215, 331 Büchner, 4 Burns, John, 300 Bushido, 133 ‘Caleb Garth,’ 61 ‘Caleb Balderstone,’ 314 Carlyle, Thomas, 238, 288 Catechism, The, 169 Cavell, Nurse, 77, 141 Character, the one achievement possible, 129; more important than conduct, 129; formation of, 264, 278; magnanimity of, 248 Charles IX, 50 chemistry, 254 Childe Harold (Byron), 186 child-garden, 24 children, waiting for call of knowledge, xxv; are born persons, xxix, 13, 18, 29, 36, 80, 238; have good and evil tendencies, xxix, 47-49, 52, 61, 66, 85, 86, 88, 89; must live under natural conditions, xxix, 96-99; have appetite for knowledge, xxx, 10, 11-13, 14, 18, 29, 44, 53, 58, 62, 77, 89, 91, 124; can deal with knowledge, xxx, 10, 14, 18, 40, 72, 109, 117, 154, 237, 263; require much and various knowledge, xxx, 11, 12, 14, 19, 25, 72, 109, 111, 116, 125, 154, 157, 253, 256, 263, 288-290; and in literary form, xxxi, 13, 17, 18, 29, 30, 51, 92, 109, 154, 160, 172, 218, 248, 256, 260, 291; have power of attention, xxxi, 7, 14, 18, 29, 75, 154, 171, 255, 263, 291; enormous educability of, xxxi; must have principles of conduct, xxxi, 62; must have responsibility of learning, 6, 74, 99; have powers common to all, 8; backward, 9, 62, 183, 245, 255, 291; are ignorant, 10; have imagination, 10, 18, 36, 41, 50; and judgment, 10, 18; hindered by apparatus of teacher, 11, 54; made apathetic by spiritual malnutrition, 11, 54; must have great thoughts, 12, 40; must read many books, xxx, 7, 12, 15, 30, 59, 76, 267, 271, 303; must read to know, 13, 99; are bored by talk, 15, 19, 41, 44, 52, 58; intellectual capacity of, belittled, 26, 31, 75, 81, 158, 192, 238, 246; are not all alike, 30, 241; first notions of, 35; and language, 35; early thoughts of, 36, 238; experience what they hear and read, 40; hearts of, thoroughly furnished, 43, 60; of the slums, 44, 63, 256, 260, 293; all, persons of infinite possibilities, 44, 156; start fair, 47; muscles and nerves of, 48; have power to sense meaning, 51, 181; not intellectual ruminants, 53; dangers of feeding, morally, 59; must think fairly, 61; capacity and needs of, 66, 157; and the sense of ‘must,’ 73; offences against, 81; must be relieved of decisions, 97; need bracing, not too stimulating, atmosphere, 98; should not ‘run wild,’ 98; must form good habits, 100; grow upon ideas, 109; should know something of their own capacities, 131, 187, 189; must follow arguments and detect fallacies, 147; must know what religion is, 149; educational rights of, 157, 339; howlers of v. mistakes, 158, 256; have affinity for God, 158; able for school education at five, but no conscious mental effort desirable until six, 159; examination answers of, 167, 168, 185, 191, 193, 194, 195-209, 244; enjoy classical names, 181; must see life whole, 187; must learn science of proportion, 187; chastely taught, watch their thoughts, 188; do not generalise, 224; devitalised, 237; not products of education or environment, 238; not incomplete beings, but ignorant, 238; powers of, 9, 238, 255; shown in verses, 242-243; offer a resisting medium, 253; need physical and mechanical training, 255; beings ‘of large discourse,’ 305; should be persons of leisure, 305 China, schools of, 343 Chinese Empire, 179 Christ, parables of, 304; gave profoundest philosophy to the multitude, 332; does not exist for our uses only, 336; teaching of, must receive profound attention, 337 Christianity, 336 Chrysostom, St., Prayer of, 64 cinematograph displays, 340 Circe, 186, 267 Citizens to Be, by Miss M. L. V. Hughes, 235 citizenship, 185-189, 254, 274; the inspiration of, 185; ancillary to history, 185; problem of good and evil in, 186 Cizek, Herr, 216 Coleridge, S. T., 35, 56, 105-108, 110, 233, 290, 318, 322 Colet, Dean, xxvi, 247 Collingwood, Lord, 60 Comenius, 8, 20, 291 composition, 190-209; oral, 190, 269; art of, should not be taught, 190, 192, 269; not an adjunct of education, 192; in verse, 193, 242; definite teaching of, in Forms V and VI, 193, 194; power of, innate in children, 191; written, 192; comes of free and exact use of books, 193; children’s, 195-209 concentration, 8, 15; innate, 171 Coningsby, 348 conscience, present in infant, 37; governing power of man, 131 Continuation Schools, edited by Sir Michael Sadler, 285 Continuation Schools, a Liberal Education in, 119, 124, 127, 147; the scope of, 279-299; movement and technical education, 279; not for technical instruction, but for things of the mind, 287 Copenhagen, 285 Copts, 314 Cornwell, Jack, 141 correlation, principle of, 276 correlation lessons, 114, ff. Council Schools, P.U.S. work in, xxv, 77, 81, 181, 182, 195, 241, 290, 293 ‘countenance,’ a manifestation of thought, 301 ‘Creakle, Mr.’ 81, 101 Curie, Madame, 141 curriculum, a full, xxx, 14, 19, 30, 154, 263; a common, 12, 293; principles bearing upon the, 13, 31, 156-158; in P.U.S., 15, 28, 154-234; in Grammar and Public Schools, 85; and the formation of habits, 99; in Elementary Schools, 155; standard set by examinations, 233; a complete, suggested by the nature of things, 156 Damien, Father, 60 dancing, 234 Darwin, 3, 4, 5, 54 David Copperfield, 81, 111, 238 democracy, 312 Demos clamours for humanistic education, 299 Denmark, education in, 123, 283-287, 291, 306 De Quincey, 29, 103, 333 Departmental Committee on English, 269 desires, which stimulate mind, 11, 88; cater for spiritual sustenance, 11; atrophy of, 89; v. other desires, 247; must be used wisely, 56; right and wrong, 84 Dewey, Professor, 280 Dickens, 81, 111 discipline, xxix, xxx; secured by knowledge-hunger, 11; education a, 99-104 discrimination, 259 diversion, xxxi Divine Spirit, xxxi; Divine sanctions, 20 docility, 68; universal, 69; v. subservience, 71; implies equality, 71 Doll’s House, The (Ibsen), 327 drawing, 217, 329 Drighlington Girls’ School, xxv, 236 economics, 73, 313 education; a liberal, xxv, 8, 21, 78, 92, 127, 235, 250, 261, 264, 266, 271, 294, 296; gives stability of mind, 248; makes for sound judgment, 56; three instruments of, xxix, 94; and atmosphere, xxix, 94-99; and discipline of habit, xxix, xxx, 99-104; is a life, xxix, 104-111; is the Science of Relations, xxx, 31, 154; little dependent on heredity and environment, xxxi; errors in, 2, 5, 24, 26, 38, 41, 44, 53, 58, 59, 75-77, 82-89, 91, 94-96, 98, 105, 110, 114-122, 129, 155, 178, 190, 237, 246, 254, 304; a philosophy of, 2, 18, 67; and training, 3, 5, 6, 20, 39, 48, 147, 287; must nourish mind, 6, 72, 105, 111, 253, 255, 260; discoveries in, 9, 62, 68, 104, 255, 256, 290; and the Desires, 11, 58, 84-90; Knowledge the concern of, 2, 93, 266; is of the spirit, 12, 26, 30, 38, 39, 125; attention, the prime agent of, 16, 76, 247; lacks exact application of principles, 19; “new,” 27; distinguished from psychology, sociology, pathology, 27; in want of a unifying theory, 32; does not produce mind, 36; and use of leisure, 42, 79, 121; the work of, 46, 60, 248, 281, 287; the handmaid of Religion, 46, 79, 248; business of, always with us, 54; of the feelings, 59; of the soul, 63; drowned by talk, 65; and capacity of child, 66; a going forth of the mind, 66, 137; popular, 76; a free, 85, 146; definite progress a condition of, 91; not mainly gymnastic in function, 108, 236; in Denmark and Scandinavia, 123, 125, 283-287, 291, 306; in Germany, 123, 125, 279, 280, 306; utilitarian, 125, 156, 180, 224, 279-283, 302; co-existent with moral bankruptcy, 281; in France, 125; in Switzerland, 125; Secondary, 127, 250-278; less liberty than in Primary, 155; character, the aim of, 129, 287; must fortify will, 131; title deeds of, 156; beginning of definite, 159; a science of proportion, 231-233; a social lever, 245; solves problems of decent living, 245; a venture of faith, 245; part and parcel of Religion, 246; v. Civilisation, 248; a common, 249, 264, 296; a democratic, 265; not for the best children only, 254; hindered by materialism, 259; an exclusive, our great achievement, 265; overlapping in, 265; a literary, open to all, 268; humanistic, affects conduct, 293; an early, from great books, the true foundation of knowledge, 308; of the race, 324; new systems of, 325; result of forty years’, 342; should be universal boon like air, 343; as exemplified by two Public School boys, 343-348 Education Act, 121, 122 Eliot, George, 61 efficiency, 125 Elementary Schools, 326; P.N.E.U. propaganda on behalf of, xxvii; P.U.S. methods in, xxxi, 13, 14, 39, 44, 50, 268; books in, 53; concentration schemes in, 115; A Liberal Education in, 235-249; gain by no marks, no places, 247 Emile, by J. J. Rousseau, 338 Encyclopædia Britannica, 5, 17 ‘English,’ 86, 147, 209-211 English Literature, 124, 298 environment, xxix, 94-99; educability of children little dependent on, xxxi, 155; not way to mind, 38; v. atmosphere, 96; children not products of, 238 Erasmus, 187, 340 erudition, 310 ethics, 14, 254, 274 Ethics of the Dust, by John Ruskin, 223 Eton, 252, 308, 348 Eucken, Professor, 249, 296 Euclid, 152, 233 eugenics, 313 eurhythmics, 251, 255 examinations, 231, 256, 277, 291; University entrance, 155, 233; and scholarships, 155; P.U.S., 158, 167, 168, 171, 178, 220, 221, 241-243, 262, 270, 272, 293-296; should set less exacting standard, 256; tests which shall safeguard Letters, 312; papers and children’s answers, 195-209 Ezekiel, 55 faculties, 11, 17, 259, 263, 266; out-of-date, 2, 230, 255; Büchner on, 4; none to develop, 255, 276 fallacious arguments, 326 Fichte, 279, 306 Fisher, Mr. H. A. L., 53, 122, 126 Fouillée, M., 110 Fox, Charles, 29; on poetry, 317 Four Georges, The, by Thackeray, 171 France, Anatole, 317 France, education in, 125 Francis, St., 60 Franklin, the Hon. Mrs., xxviii Frederick the Great, 3 French, the teaching of, 211-213 French Revolution, The, 4, 92 Fuller, Thomas, xxvii Gaddi, Taddeo, 322 games, 188; should be joyous relaxation rather than stern necessity, 267 Genesis, 309 geography, teaching of, 14, 30, 40, 59, 177, 220, 221, 224-230; dangers of ‘scientific,’ 41; suffers from utilitarian spirit, 224; and travel, 226; the romance of, 227; not generalisations, 227; inferential method of teaching, 227-228; panoramic method, 227-228; literary character of, 228 geology, teaching of, 221 geometry, the teaching of, 233 German, the teaching of, 213 Germany, moral breakdown of, 3, 123; influence of Darwin on, 3, 4; utilitarianism in, 6, 123, 125, 280, 286, 306; cult of æstheticism in, 95; philosophers of, 3, 4; school curriculum in, 6; efficiency in, 282, 283 Gibbon, 124 Gladstone, W. E., 281 Gloucester teachers’ P.U.S. conference, 183 Gloucestershire, 51, 90 God, knowledge of, 64, 65, 158-169, 239, 246, 254, 287, 289, 310, 315; the principal knowledge, 272, 338 ‘Godfrey Bertram,’ 122 Goethe, 40, 160-162, 273, 299 Gordon, General, 141 Gordon Riots, 130 Gorky, Maxim, 62 Gospels, The, 165, 166, 169 grammar, the teaching of, 7, 10, 141, 151, 152, 209-211, 269 Greek, 124, 155, 254, 308 Greeks and the power of words, 316 Gregory, Sir Richard, on science teaching, 222 Grundtvig, 125, 283, 284, 291 Guy Mannering, 122, 331 gymnastics, intellectual and physical v. knowledge, 236 Habit, xxix, 53, 99-104, 128, 147; is inevitable, 101; a bad master, 101; act repeated becomes, 102; religious, 103 Haeckel, Ernst, 4 Hague, The, 285 Haldane, Lord, 26 Hall, Professor Stanley, 280 Hamlet, 179, 183 handicrafts, xxx, 31, 73, 154, 217, 234, 251, 255, 328 Heart of Midlothian, The, 331 Henry VIII, 170, 173 Herbart, 112, 113, 114, 117 Herbartian doctrine, xxx, 113, 117 Herbert, George, 64 heredity, educability of children little dependent on, xxxi, 155 High School girl, the, 326 history, 14, 30, 42, 50, 59, 62, 73, 77, 151, 157, 169-180, 254, 267; a vital part of education, 169, 273; church, 169; English, 170-175, 176, 177; French, 175, 176, 177; ancient, 175, 176, 177, 274; Indian, 176, 267; European, 176, 177; British Empire, 176; and literature, 176, 177, 180, 184, 269, 274; and citizenship, 185, 274; geographical aspects of, 177; as a background for thought, 178; time given to, 170; necessary for a sane life, 178; gives weight to decision, consideration to action, stability to conduct, 179; charts, by Miss Beale, 177 Home Education Series, 6, 27 Homer, 182, 190 home work, 9 hope, we want, 335 Horace, 78, 264 horde, spirit of, a dangerous tendency, 300 Household, Mr. H. W., 90, 212 House of Education, The, 15, 212, 213, 276 “howlers,” 158, 256 Humanism, 240; for the people at large, 235 humanistic training surest basis for business capacity, 285 ‘Humanities,’ The, 14, 157, 235, 239, 260, 297, 305; in English, 298 human nature, prefers natural to spiritual law, 3; a composite whole, 156; possibilities of, infinite and various, 156; an ordered presentation of the powers of, 189; has not failed, 335 Huxley on the teaching of science, 218 hygiene, 220 Ideas, xxix, xxx, 290; mind feeds on, xxx, 10, 20, 25, 39, 40, 105, 109, 110, 117, 256; informing, xxx, 26, 154; initial, xxxi; Platonic, 10, 108; that influence life, 25; give birth to acts, 80, 102, 303; potency of, 105; rise and progress of, 106, 107; Coleridge’s ‘captain,’ 110; behaviour of, 113; correlation of, 114; instruct conscience and stimulate will, 130; choice between, 134; growth of, 297 Ignorance, dangers of, 1, 5, 279, 299, 310, 314; is not incapacity, 63; our national stumbling-block, 239; only one cure for, 239 Imagination, 25, 259; present in children, 11, 18, 36, 41, 50; present in infant, 37; may be stored with evil images, 55 Incuria of children, 52, 254, 292 India, 267 influence, 83 information v. knowledge, 26, 184, 303, 321 initiative, 25 insincerity an outcome of ignorance, 326 integrity, 61 intellect not a class prerogative, 12; enthroned in every child, 50 intellectual conversion, xxv, xxvi intellectual appetite, 56 intelligence not a matter of inheritance and environment, 12 introspection, 66 irresponsibility characterises our generation, 313 Isaiah, 106, 309, 318 Italian, teaching of, 213 James, Professor William, 113, 114 Japan, 133; revolution in, 306 Jewish nation, history of, 162 Joan and Peter, by H. G. Wells, 95, 252, 266 Johnson, Dr., 143, 160; on questions, 257 Jordan, xxvi judgment, power of, 259; present in children, 9, 18 justice, 60-62 Kant, 306 Keble, 167 Kidd, Benjamin, 69 King Lear, 45, 242 Kipling, Rudyard, 89, 135, 181 Kirschensteiner, Dr. and Munich Schools, 280 knowledge, call of, xxv; appetite for, xxx, 10, 11, 14, 18, 20, 29, 44, 53, 57, 77, 89, 90, 92, 117, 124, 253, 255, 290, 302; must be vital, xxx, 39, 44, 105, 154; quantity and variety of, xxx, 11, 14, 19, 116, 123, 154, 157, 253, 256, 257, 263, 288, 289, 290; must be literary in form, xxx, 13, 15, 18, 29, 30, 51, 91, 109, 111, 154, 160, 172, 218, 248, 256, 260, 290; assimilation of, xxx, 12, 14, 16, 18, 155, 240, 292; the sole concern of education, 2, 12, 93; the necessary food of mind, 2, 18, 75, 88, 239, 256, 258; consecutive, 7, 158, 172, 244, 261, 267; accurate, 8; what is? 12, 239, 254, 303; a basis of common, for all classes, 20, 78, 264, 293, 298, 299; not sensation, 26; of good and evil, 46; love of, sufficient stimulus for work, 58, 79, 98; of God, 64, 65, 158-169, 239, 246, 254, 272, 287, 289, 310, 315, 338; formative influence of, 65; brings freedom, 71, 73; depreciation of, 76, 301, 316; is delectable, 89; creates bracing atmosphere, 97; v. teaching, 118; is virtue, 127, 235; of man, 169-218, 239, 254, 289, 315; of the Universe, 218-234, 239, 254, 289, 316; relativity of, and mind, 237, 240, 324; stops friction, 238; substitutes for, 302; ‘The source of pleasure,’ 302; Matthew Arnold on, 239; received with attention, and fixed by narration, 259; not same as academic success, 266; unifying effect of, 267; ‘Meet for the people,’ 292; a distinction between, and scholarship, 305; ‘Letters,’ the content of, 308; not a store but a state, 309; of the Life, the Truth, the Way, 317; the basis of a nation’s strength, 321; v. information, 303, 321; mediæval conception of, 321; all, is sacred, 324; a great unity, 324; and ‘learning,’ 325; exalteth a nation, 342 Kultur, 286 Lamb, Charles, 16, 258, 260 languages, the teaching of, 209-213, 254, 276 Latin, the teaching of, 94, 124, 155, 213 League of Nations, 169 learning, by rote, 257; and knowledge, 325; labour of, not decreased by narrowing curriculum, 158 Lecky, Mr., on utilitarian theory, 280 Lehrbuch zur Psychologie, 113 Leibnitz, 110, 113 Leonardo da Vinci, 54 lessons, dull routine, 44 ‘Letters,’ knowledge and virtue, 307; the vehicle of knowledge, 308; a knowledge of, necessary, 313; make a universal appeal, 333; the staple of education, 334 Liberal Education, A: Practice, by A. C. Drury, 157 life, not enough for our living, 335 listening, habit of, 244 Lister, 19, 318 literary form, children must have, xxx, 15, 18, 29, 30, 51, 91, 109, 111, 154, 160, 172, 218, 248, 256, 260, 290; children educated out of, 13 Literature, the teaching of, 42, 43, 52, 62, 151, 157, 180-185, 254; natural aptitude for, 91; illustrates history, 176, 177, 180, 184, 269, 274; a living power, 185; and history, sole key to unintelligible world, 338; reveals deepest things, 338 Locke, 4, 156 Logos, 330 Louis XI, 132 Louis XIV, 92 Louisa, Queen of Prussia, 306 Lugard, Lady, 314 Lysander, 109 Macbeth, 140 magnanimity, 89, 248, 268 magnetism, personal, 13, 48, 49 Magnus, Sir Philip, 280 maps, 224 Marconi, 236 Maria Theresa, 311 marks, 7, 11, 28, 52, 247, 302; unnecessary, 45 Marx, Karl, 144 Masefield, John, on vitality of mind, 277 mathematics, the teaching of, 7, 59, 148, 151, 152, 153, 155, 230-233, 254, 256, 264, 296; appeal to mind, 51; beauty and truth of, 230, 334; undue importance of, 231; not a royal road to learning, 231; to be studied for their own sake, 232; success should not depend on, 232; depend upon the teacher, 233; badly taught, 233 matter, not the foundation of all being, 4; and mind, 5 Memmi, Simone, 284, 322, 323 Memory, 14, 16; mind v. word, 173, 263; knowledge, mental not verbal, 258, 303 mental food and work not synonymous terms, 281 Method, Coleridge’s, 106, 107 method, special points of P.N.E.U.; children do the work, 6, 19, 192, 216, 241; teachers help, 6, 19, 241; single reading, 6, 15, 171, 241, 258, 261, 263, 267, 291, 293, 304; narration, 6, 15, 18, 30, 45, 65, 155, 163, 165, 172, 180, 182, 190, 191, 211, 241, 261, 272, 276, 291; no revision, 6, 9, 15, 171, 241, 245, 262; no special selections, 7, 244; many books, 7, 12, 15, 30, 59, 76, 241, 267, 268, 271, 303; children’s delight in books, 7, 19, 30, 45; attention secured by books, 7, 13, 30, 45, 276; consecutive knowledge, 7, 158, 172, 244, 261, 267; takes less time, 9, 245; no preparation, 9, 158, 245; children occupied with things as well as books, 31; short hours, 158; examinations, 158, 167, 168, 171, 178, 195-209, 241-243, 262, 263, 270, 272; children form a good style, 194; power of dealing with names, 181, 262, 264, 294-296; suitable for large numbers, 247; success depends on principles, 270 ‘Micawber, Mr.,’ 231 ‘Midas,’ 267 Milton, 110, 124, 132, 159, 188, 274; on ideal of education, 249, 268; Areopagitica, 188 Mind, habits of, xxix, 53, 100; feeds on ideas, xxix, 2, 10, 15, 18, 20, 25, 39, 40, 105, 111, 117, 256, 257; not a receptacle, xxx, 112; a spiritual organism, xxx, 24, 38, 117; has appetite, xxx, 10, 20, 39, 57, 89, 281; must be fed, xxx, 5, 10, 18, 20, 24, 25, 41, 71, 105, 111, 117, 154, 236, 239, 246, 259, 263, 281, 288; can deal with knowledge, xxx, 10, 18, 41, 72, 117; not made up of faculties, 2, 17; in education, 2, 6, 253; thought alone appeals to, 2, 12, 15; is one, 5, 41; is spiritual, 5, 38; action of, stimulated by desires, 11, 13, 88; nature of, 20; house of, 24; must have labour of digestion, 26, 237; the instrument of education, 36; spiritual, v. physical brain, 38, 100, 260, 330; amazing potentialities of, 38; ‘the unconscious,’ 38, 66, 130; tendency to ignore, 38; the means of living, 42; good and evil tendencies of, 46, 49, 52; not a chartered libertine, 49; use of term, 66; always conscious, 66; heaven of, 71; not sustained by physical or emotional activity, 72, 289; must not be intruded upon, 130; deals with intellectual matter without aids, 172; potency not property characteristic of, 237; laws of, 245, 246, 290; behaviour of, 253; duly fed, its activities take care of themselves, 289; vast educability of, 289; receives knowledge to grow, 237; must know, 237; wonder of, 239; and knowledge, 240, 324; functions for its own nourishment, 246; of children not immature, 246; stability of, 248; benefits by occasional gymnastics, 255; a crucible, cannot distil from sawdust, 257; a deceiver ever, 257; outer court of, 257; how, works, 257; -stuff, 259; forces which act in education, 259; we must believe in, 260; moves altogether when it moves at all, 276; demands method, 334 miracles, 148 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 36 Montaigne, on history, 169 Moral, impulse, 17; offences bred in the mind, 188; training, 58, 59 morality, school, 188 morals, everyday and economics: citizenship, 185-189 Mornings in Florence, by John Ruskin, 323 Muirhead, Professor, 3 Munich, 285, 306; Schools, 125, 280, 286 ‘Murdstone, Mr.,’ 81 Music, 329 Musical Appreciation, by Mrs. Howard Glover, 217, 218 Napoleon, 5; a great reader, 305, 306 Napoleonic wars, 125, 279, 283 Narration, 99, 115, 165, 166, 180, 182, 190, 258-261, 291, 292; method of, xxx, 6, 15-17, 29, 30, 51, 64-65, 155, 163, 172-173, 191, 241, 244, 304; v. reproduction, 18, 30, 272; of slum children, 45, 63; depends on single reading, 6, 15, 171, 241, 258, 261, 263, 267, 291, 293, 304; a preparation for public speaking, 86, 124; literary expression in, 90; Dr. Johnson on, 160; must not be interrupted, 172, 191; in the teaching of languages, 211-213, 276; a natural power, 191 National Gallery, The, 215 natural history, the teaching of, 220 natural selection, 4 Nature Note Books, 217, 219, 223 Nature Study, xxx, 73, 154, 219, 328 needlework, 234 New Testament, 165, 187; teaching of, must be grounded on Old, 161 Newton, Sir Isaac, 231 Nietzsche, 3 Nightingale, Florence, 141 Nineteenth Century and After, 270 note-taking, 245, 257 Obedience, natural, necessary and fundamental, xxix, 68-79, 97, 134; dignified, 70; willing, 70; the test of personality, 134 obligation, 17 obscene passages, 341 Old Testament, 160-165, 341; as a guide to life, 273 opinions, v. ideas, 110; of teacher, 288 opportunity, doctrine of equal, 92, 179; universal, a fallacy, 343 oral lessons, xxvi, 15, 271 order, how to keep, 45 Ourselves, Our Souls and Bodies, 188, 189 Pagan, The, 250 ‘Page, Ann,’ 331 Paget, Dr. Stephen, on suggestion, 82 Paley, 9 ‘Paracelsus,’ 331 Parents and Children, 108 Parents’ Associations, xxviii Parents’ National Educational Union, xxix, 6, 9, 23, 62, 79, 159, 171, 217, 253, 268, 270; mission of, to all classes, xxvii P.N.E.U. Philosophy, xxix; fits all ages, satisfies brilliant children, helps the dull, secures attention, interest, concentration, 28 Parents’ Union School, xxviii, 13, 45, 78, 212, 217, 223, 233, 235, 254, 269, 275-277, 293; books in, 271; education free to Elementary Schools, 296 Parthenon Room, 175 Pascal, 256 Pasteur, 318 Paterson, Mr. A., 118, 119, 121 patriotism, a sane, 174 Paul, St., xxvii, 188, 309 Pelmanism, the indictment of, 250, 252 ‘Pendennis, Arthur,’ 159 People’s High Schools in Denmark, 283-286 Person, a child is a, xxix, 13, 18, 29, 36, 44, 238; chief responsibility of a, to accept ideas, xxxi; marks of an educated, 1, 100; the more of a, the better citizen, 3, 76, 147; the measure of a, 10, 80; a, built up from within, 23; a, is a mystery, 238; a, measured by the wide and familiar use of substantives, 261; a, brought up first for his own uses, then for society, 329; a, who ‘lives his life,’ 329; nobility of a, 334 personality, respect due to, xxix, 24, 81-84, 97, 100, 125, 129; development of, 5, 147; of teacher, 7, 172; undue play of, 78, 82, 129; in narration, 18, 260 Perthes, Friedrich, 341 ‘Peter Pan,’ 59 Pett Ridge, Mr., 119 ‘Petulengro, Jasper,’ 224 Peveril of the Peak, 282 philosophy, 43; a, necessary to life, 334; a consummate, 337 physical training, xxx, 48, 72, 154, 233, 255 pictures v. descriptions, 340 picture study, 214-217, 275 Pied Piper, The, 48 Piozzi, Mrs., 160 platitudes, 326 Plato, 25, 27, 59, 148, 187, 337, 340; on ideas, 10, 105, 108; on knowledge, 127, 235 ‘play way,’ a, 251, 255; not avenue to mind, 38 pleasure, grand elementary principle of, 248 Plutarch, 109, 185-187; on history, 274 poetry, 59, 72, 157 Poland, 184 Prayer Book, The, 169 prejudices, 326 ‘Prettymans, the Miss,’ 251 progress, fetish of, 297 Promethean fable, 322 Protagoras, 25 Prussia, 5, 279, 306 pseudo-knowledge, 340 psychology, English, 4; mythology of ‘faculty,’ 4; said to rest on feeling, 5; v. sociology, allied to pathology, 27; modern, 66; little known of, 253 Public Schools, 1, 74, 78, 85, 91, 105, 120, 188, 251, 252, 265, 266, 297, 301, 308-313, 326, 344; our educational achievement, 308; ignorance of boys, 309, 310 public opinion, 314, 320 Punch, 34, 95 questionnaire, dangers of, 54, 257 ‘Quickly, Mrs.,’ 331 R’s, the three, 63 raconteur, a good, 173 reading, a single, 6, 15, 171, 241, 258, 261, 263, 267, 291, 293, 304; desultory, not education, 13, 189; in order to know, 14; and writing, 30, 244; must be consecutive, 261, 267 Reason, 259; the way of the, xxxi; present in the infant, 37; must not be deified, 55; justifies any notion, 55, 143; confounded with right, 56; does not begin it, 140; brings infallible proofs of any idea, 139, 315; works involuntarily, 142; is subject to habit, 147; is fallible, 150, 314; and rebellion, 314; cannot take the place of knowledge, 314 reflection, 25 religion, 14, 40, 43, 46, 64, 73, 79, 239, 289; teaching of, 159-169; two aspects of, 160-161; difficulties in, 162, 164 Rembrandt, 63, 215 Renaissance, The, xxv, 9, 54; Italian and French, 311; Schools, 343 Repington, Colonel, 232, 252 reproduction, 259 ‘Responsions,’ 311 retention, 259 revision of lessons, 6, 9, 15, 171, 241, 245, 262 rewards, 7 Richard III, 143 Richelieu, 90 Roberts, Lord, 141 Rosetta Stone, 63 Rossetti, 340 Rousseau, J. J., 325, 338, 339 Ruskin, John, 110, 152, 230, 322, 323, 326 Russia, 320; Soviet, 145 St. Cross, 332 Salisbury, Lord, 281 Saviour of the World, The, 167 Scandinavia, education in, 123, 125 scholarship, an exquisite distinction, 310; v. knowledge, 305 schools, not merely a nursery for the formation of character, 264; find substitutes for knowledge, 266 Schwärmerei, 49 Science, xxx, 14, 31, 40, 42, 51, 59, 154, 157, 239, 256; teaching of, 218-230, 275; approached by field-work, with literary comments, 223, 256; fatal divorce between, and the ‘humanities,’ 223, 318; must rouse wonder, 224, 317; the mode of revelation granted to our generation, 318; waiting for its literature, 318; of relations, 327; of the proportion of things, 327 Science, Social, 14 Scott, Sir Walter, 110, 182, 190, 261 Scottish philosophers, 11 scrupulosity of to-day, 101 Secondary Schools, 127; a liberal education in, 250-278 self-authority, 17, 71, 74, 75, 76 self-culture, not an ideal, 133 self-direction necessary, 131 self-education comes from within, 23; education must be, 26, 28-32, 38, 77, 99, 240, 241, 289 self-expression, 66, 108, 276, 326, 327 Self-Help, by Dr. Smiles, 248 self-knowledge, 131, 137 sensory activities, 2, 48 Shakespeare, 55, 124, 143, 167, 170, 182, 183, 245, 270, 274, 314, 341 Shaw, Mr. Bernard, 27 Sisyphus, 240 ‘Skimpole, Harold,’ 231 Socialism, 320 Socrates, 49, 302, 332; use of questioning, 17 Sophocles, 124 soul, well-being of the, 63; the Holy of Holies, 63; satisfaction for, 64 specialisation, dangers of, 53, 254 spelling, 271 Spirit, Divine, xxxi; is the man, 5; education is of the, 12, 26, 30; born of spirit, 39; use of term, 65; acts upon matter, 100; is might, reveals itself in spirit, works only in freedom, 125, 284 spontaneity, condition of development, xxxi ‘Squeers, Mr.,’ 101 stability, mark of educated classes, 179 Statue and the Bust, The, 133 Stein, 279 Steinthal, Mrs. Francis, xxv stops, use of, 191 Stuart educational ideals, 326 “Studies serve for delight,” xxvi, 7, 19, 266; make for personality, 5 Suggestion, xxxi, 82, 83; a grave offence, 129; weakens moral fibre, 129; causes involuntary action, 129; weakens power of choice, 130 superman, 3, 4 Sweden, 285 Switzerland, education in, 125 syllabus, points to be considered in a, xxx, 154, 268; a wide, 256; the best, 268; a, must meet demands of mind, 256; sterile, of schoolboy, 268 sympathy of numbers, 247 ‘tales,’ 30, 132, 190 teacher, part of, in education, 6, 19, 118, 130, 237, 240, 241, 246, 260, 261, 304; personality of, 7, 48, 78, 82, 129, 172; intellectual apparatus of, 11; not a mere instrument, 32; must understand human nature of child, 47; underrates tastes and abilities of children, 52, 238; must read aloud with intention, 244; comes between children and knowledge, 247; finds education a passion, 251 teaching how to learn, a farce, 348 Tennyson, 138, 333 things, “are in the saddle,” 7, 260; children occupied with, 31 thinking, not doing, a source of character, 278 thought, not simply a function of brain, 2, 4, 260; great, necessary for children, 5, 12, 130; alone appeals to mind, 12; begets thought, 12, 303; action follows on due, 24; our, not our own, 60, 137; right, not self-expression, follows upon an idea, 130; socialistic, fallacies in, 144-147; sins committed in, 188; common basis of, 264, 298 Thucydides, 124 Timon of Athens, 44 ‘Titanic,’ 335 Trades’ Unions, 315; Guilds, 319 Traherne, 34, 36, 37, 40 Training, intellectual, 2, 24, 147, 255; physical, 2, 6, 20, 48, 255; vocational, 2, 3, 5, 6, 287, 302; not education, 255 Treitschke, 3 Trench, 167 Trollope, A., 251 truth, justice in word, 61 Tudor women, 311 Tugendbund, 6, 279 Ulysses, 41 Undine, xxv Universities, People’s, 123 unrest comes from wrong thinking, 60; Labour, 92, 179, 286, 297, 300, 319; Indian, 184 Van Eyck’s, ‘Adoration of the Lamb,’ 322 Vasari, 54 Vaughan, 35 verbal understanding v. dealing with books, 172 Vienna, Congress of, 170 village community life, 286 Vittorino, 310 Voltaire, 156 Waverley Novels, The, 63, 325 Wellington, The Duke of, 102, 308 Whichcote, xxix, 33 Whitby, 223 White, Gilbert, 223 wilfulness, signs of, 37 Will, the way of the, xxxi, 128, 131; function of, to choose, 128, 129, 133; action of, is character, 129; the safeguard of a man, 130; and danger of suggestion, 130; education must fortify, 131; the governing power of man, 131; fallacies concerning, 132; nourished upon ideas, 132; must have objects outside self, 133; the function of man, 133; implies understanding, 133; a free agent, 133; is supreme, 135; needs diversion, 136; free, not free thought, 136, 137; ordering of, 137; is the man, 314 Witte, Count, 130 words, beauty of, 151; vehicle of truth, 151; use of, 316 Wordsworth, William, 35, 93, 166, 180, 238, 276, 320, 322 work, the better man does the better, 282 working men and their leisure, 42 worship, a sublime ideal, 317 Wren, Sir Christopher, 54 writing, 30 Yorkshire, Drighlington School, xxv, 236