51

Vocational Guidance 53

The Educational Psychologist 56

II. THE RELATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY TO THE HIGH
SCHOOLS OF THE STATE 63

The Elementary School 65

The High School 67

The State University 75

III. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE TEACHER 89

The Kind of Teachers the University Should
Employ 91

The University Teacher in his Classroom 94

The University's Attitude Toward the Preparation
of Teachers for the Schools of the State 105

IV. THE EYE PROBLEM IN THE SCHOOLS 115

V. THE HOME, THE CHURCH, AND THE SCHOOL 133

The Home 134

The Church 141

The School 150

VI. NOBLESSE OBLIGE 163

VII. IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS 185

VIII. LOCAL WINTER SPORTS 203

IX. THE FUNCTION OF TEACHERS COLLEGE 217

X. CREDIT FOR QUALITY IN SECONDARY AND HIGHER
EDUCATION 243

INDEX 261

INTRODUCTION

HAVE THE SCHOOLS BEEN DISCREDITED BY THE REVELATIONS OF THE WAR?

_From School and Society, April 5, 1919_

Knowing that I was about to publish a book on education in which the
Great War, now happily closed, was not taken as the point of departure,
a friend said to me one day, in substance, "Aren't you taking undue
risks just now in putting out a book on education that isn't based upon
a program of reconstruction? Haven't all our so-called educational
principles been dis-credited? Shall you get any readers if you do not
admit educational failure thus far, and proceed to discuss a change of
front, made imperative by recent revelations