to rest

Establishing of internal order, or "discipline"

Psychical growth requires constantly new and more complex material

Difference between materials of auto-education and the didactic
material of the schools

Psychical truths.

"Discipline" the first external sign of a psychical reaction
to the material

Initial disorder in Montessori schools

Psychical progress not systematic but "explosive in nature"

Birth of individuality

Intellectual crises are accompanied by emotion

Older child beginning in system, chooses materials in
inverse order

Course of psychical phenomena explained by diagrams

Tests of Binet and Simon arbitrary and superficial

Problems of psychical measurement

Observing the child's moral nature

Transformation of a "violent" child and of a "spying" child
in a Montessori school

Polarization of the internal personality

Guide to psychological observation.

Work

Conduct

Obedience

CHAPTER IV

THE PREPARATION OF THE TEACHER

The school is the laboratory of experimental psychology

Qualities the new type of teacher must possess

CHAPTER V

ENVIRONMENT

Physical hygiene in the school

The requirements of psychical hygiene

Free movement.

Misconceptions of physical freedom

Action without an aim fatigues

Work of "preservation" rather than "production" suitable
to children

CHAPTER VI

ATTENTION

Awakens in answer to an impulse of "spiritual hunger"

Attention cannot be artificially maintained by teacher

_Liberty_ the experimental condition necessary for
studying phenomena of attention

Child's perception of an internal development makes the
exercise pleasant and induces him to prolong it

External stimuli powerless without an answering internal force

A natural internal force directs psychical formation

New pedagogy provides nourishment for internal needs

Organization of knowledge in the child's mind

Teacher directs, but does not interrupt phenomena of attention

Material offered should correspond to psychical needs

CHAPTER VII

WILL

Its relation to attention

Manifested in action and inhibition

Opposite activities of the will must combine to form
the personality

Powers of the will established by exercise, not by subjection

Persistence in effort the true foundation of will

Decision the highest function of the