The Vitalized School

=Life and living compared.=--There is a wide difference between school-teaching and teaching school. The question "Is she a school-teacher?" means one thing; but the question "C...

=Teachers contrasted.=--The vitalized school is an expression of the vitalized teacher. In the hands of the teacher of another sort, the vitalized school is impossible. Unless s...

=The child as the center in school procedure.=--The child is the center of school procedure in all its many ramifications. For the child the building is erected, the equipment i...

=Rights of the coming generations.=--Any school procedure that limits its interests and activities to the present generation takes a too restricted view of the real scope of edu...

=The politician defined.=--The politician has been defined as one who makes a careful study of the wants of his community and is diligent in his efforts to supply these wants. T...

=Acquisitiveness.=--In fancy, at least, we may attain a position over and far above the city of London and from this vantage-place, with the aid of strong glasses, watch a panor...

=A conflict.=--There was a fight on a railway train--a terrific fight. The conductor and two other Americans were battling against ten or more foreigners. These foreigners had c...

=Patriotism as a working principle.=--The vitalized school generates and fosters patriotism, not merely as a sentiment, but more particularly as a working principle. Patriotism...

=Tom Sawyer.=--Tom Sawyer was one of the most effective teachers that has figured in the pages of the books; and yet we still regard Mark Twain as merely the prince of humorists...

=Initial statement.=--Life and words are so closely interwoven that we have only to study words with care in order to achieve an apprehension of life. Indeed, education may be d...

=The question raised.=--That education is a preparation for complete living has been quoted by every teacher who lays any sort of claim to the standard definitions. Indeed, so o...

=The question stated.=--There are many, doubtless, who will deny, if not actually resent, the statement that some do more real teaching in ten minutes than others do in thirty m...

=Teaching as a fine art.=--Teaching is an art. This fact has universal recognition. But it may be made a fine art, a fact that is not so generally recognized. The difference bet...

=Responsibility of the exemplar.=--If the teacher could be convinced that each of her pupils is to become a replica of herself, she would more fully appreciate the responsibilit...

=The term defined.=--The socialized recitation, as its name implies, is a recitation in which teacher and pupils form themselves into a committee of the whole for the purpose of...

=Agriculture a typical study.=--In the vitalized school the subject of agriculture is typical and may profitably be elaborated somewhat by way of illustrating the relation of a...

=An analogy.=--If we may win a concept of the analogy between the vitalized school and a filtration-plant, we shall, perhaps, gain a clearer notion of the purpose of the school...

=Poetry defined.=--Poetry has been defined as "a message from the heart of the artist to the heart of the man"; and, seeing that the heart is the center and source of life, it f...

=An American story.=--There is a story to the effect that a certain Mr. Jones was much given to boasting of his early rising. He stoutly maintained that he was going about his w...

=Yearning toward betterment.=--Much has been said and written in recent times touching the matter and manner of vitalizing and humanizing the studies and work of the school. The...

=Behavior in retrospect.=--The caption of this chapter implies the behavior of human beings, as a matter of course, and the study of this subject is, at once, both alluring and...

=Spiritual freedom.=--There is no slavery more abject than the bondage of ignorance. John Bunyan was not greatly inconvenienced by being incarcerated in jail. His spirit could n...

=Prelude.=--When the vitalized school has finally been achieved there will result a radical departure from the present procedure in the matter of examinations. A teacher in the...

=An outline.=--Education is the process of world-building. Every man builds his own world and is confined, throughout life, to the world which he himself builds. He cannot build...

=The school an expression of the teacher.=--The vitalized school may be a school of one room or of forty rooms; it may be in the city, in the village, in the hamlet, or in the h...