A SURVEY OF MODERN EDUCATION
The precepts which govern moral education and instruction.
Child expected to acquire virtues by imitation, instead
of development
Domination of the child's will the basis of education
It is the teacher who forms the child's mind. How he teaches.
Teacher's path beset with difficulties under the present system
Advanced experts prepare the schemata of instruction
Some outlines of "model lessons" used in the schools
Comparison of a "model lesson" for sense development with
the Montessori method
Experimental psychology, not speculative psychology, the
basis of Montessori teaching
False conceptions of the "art of the teacher" illustrated
by model lessons
Positive science makes its appearance in the schools
Discoveries of medicine: distortions and diseases
Science has not fulfilled its mission in its dealings with children.
Diseases of school children treated, causes left undisturbed
Discoveries of experimental psychology: overwork; nervous exhaustion
Science is confronted by a mass of unsolved problems.
Laws governing fatigue still unknown
Toxines produced by fatigue and their antitoxins
Joy in work the only preventative of fatigue
Real experimental science, which shall liberate the child,
not yet born