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modem point of view in education. Chapter one has the sugges- 

 tive title "The Revolt from Monotony." The nature lover will 

 appreciate this (p. 25) "Out-of-door work in nature's laboratory, 

 would give the children live problems for solution instead of dead 

 ones. The children would learn to investigate — to put questions 

 to themselves and to find answers. Readiness to see problems in 

 what confronts one, to state conditions clearly, with emphasis on 

 the essentials, to see the questions involved in these conditions, 

 underlie thinking ; and this power is not gained by sitting in one's 

 seat and reading what others have said about these things. . . . 

 Studying what writers say with laboratory work to establish its 

 correctness is the imitative method. It does not train in think- 

 ing; and failure to learn to think is failure in education." 



The successive chapter headings are: Efficient Teaching, 

 "Getting Results," Progress in Learning, Economy in Learning, 

 Habit in Learning and Achievement, New Demands on the 

 School. There is appended an extensive list of references for 

 further reading. It" is an exceedingly good book, for the lay 

 reader. The specialist in education will know it all. The 

 average teacher or parent will profit by it greatly. 



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