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  1. Front Matter
    1. Contents
    2. Foreword
    3. Preface
  2. A Short Synopsis
  3. Introduction
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
  4. Book I
    1. Chapter I: Self-Education
    2. Chapter II: Children Are Born Persons
      1. 1.—The Mind of a Child
      2. 2.—The Mind of a School-Child
      3. 3.—Motives for Learning
    3. Chapter III: The Good and Evil Nature of a Child
      1. 1.—Well-Being of Body
      2. 2.—Well-Being of Mind
      3. 3.—Intellectual Appetite
      4. 4.—Misdirected Affections
      5. 5.—The Well-Being of the Soul
    4. Chapter IV: Authority and Docility
    5. Chapter V: the Sacredness of Personality
    6. Chapter VI: Three Instruments of Education
      1. I.—Education Is an Atmosphere
      2. 2.—Education Is a Discipline
      3. 3.—Education Is a Life
    7. Chapter VII: How We Make Use of Mind
    8. Chapter VIII: The Way of the Will
    9. Chapter IX: The Way of the Reason
    10. Chapter X: The Curriculum
      1. Section I: The Knowledge of God
      2. Section II: The Knowledge of Man
        1. a. History
        2. b. Literature
        3. c. Morals and Economics: Citizenship
        4. d. Composition
        5. e. Languages
        6. f. Art
      3. Section III: The Knowledge of the Universe
        1. a. Science
        2. b. Mathematics
        3. c. Physical Development Handicrafts
  5. Book II: Theory Applied
    1. Chapter I: A Liberal Education in Elementary Schools
    2. Chapter II: A Liberal Education in Secondary Schools
    3. Chapter III: The Scope of Continuation Schools
    4. Chapter IV: The Basis of National Strength--a Liberal Education From a National Standpoint
      1. I: Knowledge
      2. II: Letters, Knowledge and Virtue
      3. III: Knowledge, Reason, and Rebellion
      4. IV: New and Old Conceptions of Knowledge
      5. V: Education and the Fullness of Life
      6. VI: Knowledge in Literary Form
  6. Supplementary: Too Wide a Mesh
  7. Back Matter
    1. Index
    2. Footnotes:
    3. The Full Project Gutenberg License

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Now ten.

[2] Now ten.

[3] Now over 300 in 1924.

[4] I quote from the article on Psychology in the Encyclopædia Britannica as being the most likely to exhibit the authoritative position.

[5] The Home Education Series.

[6] In connection with the Parents’ Union School.

[7] The small Practising School attached to the House of Education (ages of scholars from six to eighteen) affords opportunities for testing the programmes of work sent out term by term, and the examinations set at the end of each term. The work in each Form is easily done in the hours of morning-school.

[8] I again quote from the article on Psychology in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

[9] See Some Discussions of the Method. (P.N.E.U. Office, 1/-).

[10] The Home Education Series.

[11] Home Education, by the Writer.

[12] See Some Studies in the Formation of Character, by the Writer.

[13] See Some Impressions of the Ambleside Method. (P.N.E.U. Office, price 9d.)

[14] See Ourselves, our Souls and Bodies. By the Writer. (P.N.E.U. Office.)

[15] Ourselves, our Souls and Bodies. By the Writer.

[16] Parents and Children. By the Writer.

[17] See Some Impressions of the Ambleside Method. (P.N.E.U. Office, price 9d.)

[18] Isaiah xxviii.

[19] Parents and Children, by the Writer.

[20] Education from a National Standpoint.

[21] The Herbartian Psychology applied to Education, by John Adams.

[22] Across the Bridges, by A. Paterson.

[23] Across the Bridges, by A. Paterson.

[24] Memoirs of Count Witte.

[25] Education of the Young.

[26] What Religion Is, by Bernard Bosanquet, D.C.L.

[27] All particulars may be had from The Director, Parents’ Union School, Ambleside. The illustrations in the way of children’s answers for the various sections of this chapter have been omitted for want of space, except in the case of a few answers under Composition.

[28] Examples of the work of scholars of various ages illustrating what has been said may be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.

[29] This book is now in print again.

[30] Of the Parents’ Union School.

[31] Examination papers giving some idea of the scope of the history studies in the P.U.S. may be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.

[32] Examination Papers can be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.

[33] Examination Papers can be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.

[34] These answers are uncorrected and are taken from Examination papers not sent back. Most parents and teachers have their papers returned.

[35] Examination answers can be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.

[36] For details see the Parents’ Union School programmes.

[37] Specimens of the children’s Examination work can be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.

[38] The Ambleside Geography; Book IV, by the Writer.

[39] Ambleside Geography: Book IV.

[40] The Ambleside Geography: Book V, by the Writer.

[41] For details see the Parents’ Union School programmes.

[42] Citizens to Be, by Miss M. L. V. Hughes.

[43] cf. “Introduction.”

[44] pp. 13 to 15.

[45] The P.U.S. was started in 1890.

[46] These are omitted for want of space but other sets can be seen at the Office of the P.N.E.U.

[47] Chapter X.

[48] See Chapter X.

[49] cf. Continuation Schools, ed. by Sir Michael Sadler, and published by the Manchester University, 1908, to which the writer is greatly indebted.

[50] Page 106.

[51] 1890.

[52] 1913.

[53] In Elementary and Continuation Schools.

[54] The Author owes to the Editor of The Times permission to reprint the chapters under this heading written in 1912; as also the happy titles of the several chapters and the general title.

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