Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

Introduction: Characterization of the age from eight to twelve--The era of recapitulating the stages of primitive human development--Life close to nature--The age also for drill...

Muscles as organs of the will, of character and even of thought--The muscular virtues--Fundamental and accessory muscles and functions--The development of the mind and of the up...

Trade classes and schools, their importance in the international market--Our dangers and the superiority of German workmen--The effects of a tariff--Description of schools betwe...

History of the movement--Its philosophy--The value of hand training in the development of the brain and its significance in the making of man--A grammar of our many industries h...

The story of Jahn and the Turners--The enthusiasm which this movement generated in Germany--The ideal of bringing out latent powers--The concept of more perfect voluntary contro...

The view of Groos partial and a better explanation of play proposed as rehearsing ancestral activities--The glory of Greek physical training, its ideals and results--The first s...

Classifications of children's faults--Peculiar children--Real faults as distinguished from interference with the teacher's ease--Truancy, its nature and effects--The genesis of...

Knightly ideals and honor--Thirty adolescents from Shakespeare--Goethe--C.D. Warner--Aldrich--The fugitive nature of adolescent experience--Extravagance of autobiographies--Stor...

Change from childish to adult friends--Influence of favorite teachers--What children wish or plan to do or be--Property and the money sense--Social judgments--The only child--Fi...

The general change and plasticity at puberty--English teaching--Causes of its failure: (1) too much time to other languages, (2) subordination of literary content to form, (3) t...

Equal opportunities of higher education now open--Brings new dangers to women--Ineradicable sex differences begin at puberty, when the sexes should and do diverge--Different int...

and poetic aspects of nature be lost in utilities. Woman should be true to her generic nature and take her stand against all premature specialization, and when the _Zeitgeist_ [...

Dangers of muscular degeneration and overstimulus of brain--Difficulties in teaching morals--Methods in Europe--Obedience to commands--Good habits should be mechanized--Value of...