310 REPORTS ON THE STATE OP SCIENCE. 



(10) The psychology of the processes of reading, spelling, writing, 

 number-work, &c. 



(11) The psychological differences in children — normal and sub- 

 normal — the question of psychological diagnosis. Sex differences — are 

 they fundamental or due to circumstances and training? 



(12) The study of intelligence : — 



(i) Special forms of intelligence. 



(ii). The correlation of general intelligence with specific mind 



functions, 

 (iii) Intelligence and age — averages, 

 (iv) Tests of ability. 



(13) The problem of formal training. 



(14) The development of moral, religious, and aesthetic instincts, 

 habits, and ideas in children. 



(15) The psychology of children en masse. The educational in- 

 fluence of 



(i) The corporate life of school, 

 (ii) Self-government. 



(iii) School or class customs and traditions, 

 (iv) School games. 



(16) Character and temperament: — 



(i) The determination of types, 

 (ii) The classification of defects. 



(17) Differences of ability in various social classes. 



B. Questions of more direct Pedagogic Character. 



(1) The more careful psychological analysis of the ideas involved in 

 special school subjects — and the general problem of ' psychologising 

 instruction in them; e.g., history, geography, mathematics. The rela- 

 tion of the logical to the psychological treatment of the subject. 



(2) ' Economy ' in methods of teaching various subjects. 



(3) The relation of the curriculum to the individual child having 

 regard to (i) its special abilities, (ii) the probable length of its school life, 

 (iii) its future calling. 



(4) The question of promotion — special treatment of dull and qrick 

 children. 



(5) Fatigue. Length of school hours. 



(6) Value of physical and manual training of a formal kind. 



(7) Co-ordination of home and school life. 



C. Questions of Sociological Character. 



(1) Influence of schooling on the fluid organisation of society. 



(2) Effects of education of different types on the moral condition of 

 the community. 



