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The New Education A REVIEW OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS OF THE DAY

SCOTT NEARING, Ph.D.

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

PREFACE CONTENTS THE NEW EDUCATION

INTRODUCTION

THE OLD EDUCATION

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

THE NEW BASIS FOR EDUCATION[16]

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

TEACHING BOYS AND GIRLS

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

FITTING SCHOOLS TO CHILDREN

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

PROGRESSIVE NOTES IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

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

KEEPING THE HIGH SCHOOL IN STEP WITH LIFE

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

HIGHER EDUCATION AT LOWVILLE[20]

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

FOOTNOTES: CHAPTER VII

A GREAT CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM[21]

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

FOOTNOTES: CHAPTER VIII

THE OYLER SCHOOL OF CINCINNATI

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

VITALIZING RURAL EDUCATION

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

FOOTNOTES: CHAPTER X

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS

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

WIDE-AWAKE SLEEPY EYE

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

THE SOUTH FOR THE NEW EDUCATION

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

FOOTNOTES: 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

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