INTRODUCTION TO THE HOME READING 
BOOK SERIES BY THE EDITOR. 
THE new education takes two important direc- 
tions—one of these is toward original observation, 
requiring the pupil to test and verify what is taught 
him at school by his own experiments. The infor- 
mation that he learns from books or hears from his 
teacher’s lips must be assimilated by incorporating it 
with his own experience. 
The other direction pointed out by the new edu- 
cation is systematic home reading. It formsa part of 
school extension of all kinds. The so-called “ Univer- 
sity Extension” that originated at Cambridge and Ox- 
ford has as its chief feature the aid of home reading by 
lectures and round-table discussions, led or conducted 
by experts who also lay out the course of reading. 
The Chautauquan movement in this country prescribes 
a series of excellent books and furnishes for a goodly 
number of its readers annual courses of lectures. The 
teachers’ reading circles that exist in many States pre- 
scribe the books to be read, and publish some analysis, 
commentary, or catechism to aid the members. 
Home reading, it seems, furnishes the essential 
basis of this great movement to extend education 
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