l growth

Bodily health suffers from spiritual neglect

With man the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.

Reflex action of the emotions on the body functions

Child's body requires joy as much as food and air

CHAPTER II

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

CHAPTER III

MY CONTRIBUTION TO EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE

The organization of the psychical life begins with the
characteristic phenomenon of attention.

Incident which led Dr. Montessori to define her method

Psychical development is organized by the aid of external stimuli,
which may be determined experimentally.

Tendency to develop his latent powers exists in the child's nature

Environment should contain the means of auto-education

External stimuli may be determined in quality and quantity.

Educative material used should contain in itself the _control of error_

Quantity of material determined by the advent of
abstraction in pupil

Relation of stimuli to the age of the pupil

Material of development is necessary only as a starting point.

Corresponds to the terra firma from which the aeroplane takes
flight and to which it returns