INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V W

Absorbing standards, 160.

Acquisitiveness, 52.

Advantages of socialized recitation, 178.

Agriculture; a typical study, 192; its rapid development, 193; relation to geology, 194; the source of life, 202.

Altruism, 124.

Ambition, 226.

American restaurants, 86.

American story, 231.

Analysis and synthesis, 293.

Anarchy, 73.

Ancestor, child as a future, 34.

Ancestors, attitude of, 31.

Answers, repetition of, 139.

Antecedent causes, 261.

Art, 197, 268; teaching as an, 143.

Aspiration, 224; and worship, 149.

Aspirations, 59.

Attitude of teacher, 11, 272.

Attitude towards work, 148.

Authors, 311.

Automobile, 105; factory, 47.

Beauty, desire for pastoral, 58.

Behavior, amplified, 265; in history, 267; in retrospect, 259; scope of, 256.

Betterment, 244.

Body subject to the mind, 120.

Books, 311; as exponents of life, 14; of questions and answers, 300; of life, 228; supreme, 252.

Botany, importance of, 195.

Boy, story of a, 236.

Bread, 200.

Centralized school, 318.

Characterizations, 308.

Child; as a future ancestor, 34; as a whole, 250; as the objective, 200; and teacher, quest of, 104; as the center in school procedure, 18; imagination of, 26; supreme, 252; right to express himself, 25; play instinct of, 24; relation of to school work, 27; life, 21; rights of, 20.

Child’s; conception of truth, 109; conception, 103; need of ideals, 169; viewpoint of teacher, 168; experiences, 27; native tendencies, 24; right to the best, 23; native interests, 255; imagination, 236.

Childhood curtailed, 22.

Children, 307; parental attitude towards, 19; common interests, 216; should have school privileges, 19; real interests, 217; vs. statistics, 247.

Cigarettes, 117.

Circus day, 118.

Civilization, 305.

Clean living, 37.

College influences, 11.

Columbus, voyage of, 152.

Commerce, 55.

Common from commonplace, 151.

Comparison of life and living, 1.

Comparison of two teachers, 129.

Complacency of teacher, 135.

Complete living defined, 112.

Complexity of life, 4.

Concepts restricted, 262, 279.

Concessions, 297.

Conclusion, 272.

Conduct of teacher, 171.

Conflict, 65.

Conservation, 245.

Contrasted methods, 44.

Contrasts, 278.

Coöperation, 75.

Course of study, 324.

Court procedure, 291.

Curtailment of childhood, 22.

Definition; of complete living, 112; of poetry, 222; of politician, 40; of socialized recitation, 176; of teaching, 2.

Degrees and human qualities, 248.

Democracy; foreign concept of, 66; the vitalized school a, 69.

Democratic spirit, manifestations of, 71.

Democratic teacher, 75.

Desire is fundamental, 60.

Desires for things intangible, 53.

Domestic science, 199.

Dynamic qualities, 146.

Economic articulation, 59.

Education, 101, 303; and substitution, 43; by absorption, 160; schools of, 246; unconsciously gained, 164.

Efficiency, 80.

Electives, 325.

English, teacher of, 239.

Enthusiasm, element of, 150.

Environment, 259.

Etymology, 106.

Examinations, 288; traditional method, 294; testing for intelligence, 296; way of reform, 301.

Expertness, appraisal of teaching, 131.

Faith, 203, 227.

Filtration plant and a vitalized school, 206.

Flowers, 304.

Food and life, 201.

Foreign concept of democracy, 66.

Formalities, meaningless, 128.

Freedom, 120, 275; elements of, 283; real, 280.

Function of the school, 70, 210.

Gang element, 179.

Generations, rights of the coming, 30.

Girl and her elders, 237.

Grammar, 212.

Great Stone Face, 162.

Habit, persistency of, 92.

History, 79, 254, 270, 278; behavior in, 267; meaning of, 14.

Home and the school, 255.

Hospitals cited, 32.

House of Parliament, 55.

Human interest, 155.

Human qualities, degrees of, 248.

Humor, 232; betokens deep feeling, 239; defies explanation, 242; lack of, 235; of Lincoln, 238.

Ideal; of the school, 215; rôle of, 166.

Idealist, 49.

Ideals, a perpetual influence, 169.

Imagination of children, 26, 236.

Imitation, politician worthy of, 43.

Incomplete living, 113.

Individual, responsibility of the, 69.

Industrial work, 321.

Influence; of people, 313; of the school, 315; upon pupils, 185.

Influences of college, 11.

Initial statement, 100.

Innate tendencies, 61.

Intelligence of teacher, 298.

Intensity, life measured by, 2.

Interest in practice, 180.

Interest, life the great human, 249.

Joy in work of artist teacher, 145.

Language, 211; a social study, 211; and vitality, 15.

Leadership, 42, 261.

Learning democracy, 268.

Lesson a prophecy, 263.

Lessons from childhood, 309.

Life; and living compared, 1; and music, 307; and reading, 12; as subject matter in teaching, 6; books as exponents of, 14; book of, 228; complexity of, 4; every subject invested with, 155; how the poet learns, 223; in literature, 6; quality of, 219; manifestations of, 5; measured by intensity, 2; sea as, 104; teachers’ influx of, 228; the great human interest, 249; transfusion of, 224.

Life and food, 201.

Lincoln’s humor, 238.

Literature; life in, 6; pedagogy in, 163.

Long division ramified, 264.

Machine teacher, 246.

Machinery, 268.

Major and minor, 299.

Man, 285.

Manifestations of life, 5.

Mark Twain as a philosopher, 240.

Mathematics vitalized, 10.

Meanderings, 139.

Melting pot, 67.

Mental atrophy, 289.

Methods, 292; contrasted, 44; potency of right, 132; of the politician, 41.

Michael Angelo, 108.

Military training, 118.

Minor and major, 299.

Misconceptions, 35, 66.

Misfits, 216.

Mistakes, 214.

Monuments, 58.

Mulberry Bend, 83.

Music, 306; and life, 307.

Native land, 226.

Needs of society, 212.

Outlook, 264.

Ownership, potency of, 181.

Parental attitude towards children, 19.

Parliament, House of, 55.

Patriot, a typical, 82.

Patriotism; a determining motive, 78; as a working principle, 77; conclusions, 89; in daily life, 85; thrift as, 87.

Pedagogy in literature, 163.

Penalizing, 294.

People, 312; influence of, 313.

Perseverance, 225.

Personal efficiency, 115.

Physical training, 116.

Physics and Chemistry, 196.

Physiology, 196.

Poetry, 271; defined, 222.

Poet learns life how, 223.

Politician defined, 40; methods of, 41; worthy of imitation, 43.

Possibilities, 134.

Potency of right methods, 132.

Power of understanding, 13.

Problem of the teacher, 98.

Proprietary interests, 180.

Public sentiment, 323.

Pupil teacher, 177.

Question stated, 127.

Questions and answers, 290; books of, 300.

Rational methods, 292.

Reading and life, 12.

Recitation, example of socialized, 187.

Reflex influence, 184.

Remembering and knowing, 290.

Repeating answers, 139.

Resourcefulness, 153.

Responsibility of the school, 36.

Restricted concepts, 262.

Resultants, 183.

Rights of the child, 20.

Rome, 276.

Rooms, 320.

Sanitation, 82.

Scholar’s concept of the sea, 102.

School; and society, 46; and the home, 255; an expression of the teacher, 317; and factory compared, 130; a life enterprise, 322; function of the, 70; function of, 210; ideal of the, 215; influence of, 315.

Schoolhouse, 319; the community center, 326.

Schools; of education, 246; responsibility of, 36; work of the, 110.

Sciences, relation of, to life, 198.

Sea; as life, 104; scholar’s concept of, 102.

Self-complacency, 289.

Self-interest, 41.

Self-reliance, 284.

Self-respect, 286.

Shakespeare, 269.

Simplicity and sincerity, 320.

Snobbery, 73.

Social intercourse, 56.

Social study, language a, 211.

Socialized recitation; definition of, 176; sample of, 187; exemplified in society, 182.

Society; and the school, 46; needs of, 212.

Sound body, 114.

Spelling, 281; as patriotism, 77.

Spirit, things of the, 123.

Spiritual freedom, 275.

Stars, 310.

Statistics vs. children, 247.

Stories, 233.

Story of a boy, 236.

Street signs, 121.

Substitutions, results of, 48.

Switchboard, 282.

Synthesis and analysis, 293.

Synthetic teaching, 203.

Teacher, 165; and child, 104; as a machine, 246; as environment, 162; attitude towards children, 254; conduct of, 171; characteristic qualities of, 144; intelligence of, 298; growth of, 172; her supremacy, 166; of English, 239; responsibility of, 159; rule of life, 171; seeing life large, 172; school an expression of, 317; skill of the, 256; status irrevocable, 168; volubility, 136.

Teachers, 327; attitude, 11, 170; complacency, 135; contrasted, 9; first type, 251; influx of life, 228; problem, 89; province, 7; other self, 167; three types of, 250.

Teaching, 229; as a fine art, 143; defined, 2; test of, 137; life as subject matter in, 6; power, 248.

Temperance, 81.

Tests of teaching, 137.

Things of the spirit, 123.

Thinking, 293.

Thirteen colonies, 154.

Three types of teachers, 250.

Thrift as patriotism, 87.

Time element, basic considerations, 129.

Time, waste of, 133.

Tom Sawyer, 91.

Trained minds, 122; achievements of, 123.

Transfusion of life, 224.

Travel instinct, 57.

Truth, child’s conception of, 109.

Twain story, 241.

Two teachers compared, 129.

Typical patriot, 82.

Understanding, power of, 13.

Unity of purpose, 328.

Variety in excellence, 63.

Vitalized mathematics, 10.

Vitalized School, 329; a democracy, 69; an exemplification of complete living, 113; filtration plant, 206.

Voluble teacher, 136.

Waste of time, 133.

Weaknesses transmitted, 30.

Westminster Abbey, 54.

Word automobile, 105.

Word in use, 107.

Work; a blessing, 96; as a privilege, 92; and enjoyment, 97; of the school, 110; potency of mental, 95; misconceptions of, 93.

World-building, 303.

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