THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE THE CHILD ITS GROWTH AND HEALTH IN EDUCATION BY FRANCIS WARNER, M.D. (LOND.) PHYSICIAN TO AND LECTURER AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL, PHYSICIAN TO THE ROYAL AUTHOR OF "THE STUDY OF CHILDREN AND THEIR SCHOOL TRAINING," ETC, London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Introductory; II. The Brain and Body in Infancy and Early Childhood; III. The Child at School; IV. Observation, Description, and Classification of Children in School; V. Evolution of the Child and his Brain Power; VI. Physical Care of the Child-Hygiene and Feeding; VII. The Training and Teaching of Young Children; VIII. Advancing School Method and Teaching; IX. The Nerve Centres in Infancy, School Life, and Adolescence-their Health and Training; X. Mental Hygiene and Voluntary Mental Power; Index. Spectator." He points out what a large and increasing share in education the medical profession are taking, especially in the training of dull or backward children. An observant teacher, by noticing such abnormal nerve-signs as indicate mental deficiency, can by various little exercises, apparently physical, stimulate the slow faculties." THE Meaning of Education AND OTHER ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES BY NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved CONTENTS The Meaning of Education; What Knowledge is of Most Worth? Is there a New Education? Democracy and Education; The American College and the American University; The Function of the Secondary School; The Reform of Secondary Education in the United States. PRESS OPINIONS Cambridge Review. "The lectures are unpretentious, readable, and interesting as suggesting some of the methods in which the people of America are approaching the subjects of national education, which sooner or later the people of this country will be perforce compelled to consider." Glasgow Herald.-" Well-informed and stimulating addresses." Speaker.-"The book contains much, chiefly in the way of suggestion, which English teachers will find well worthy of study.' THE Development of the Child BY NATHAN OPPENHEIM ATTENDING PHYSICIAN TO THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT OF MT. SINAI HOSPITAL DISPENSARY London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Introductory; II. and III. Facts in the Comparative Development of the Child; IV. Comparative Importance of Heredity and Environment; V. The Place of the Primary School in the Development of the Child; VI. The Place of Religion in the Development of the Child; VII. The Value of the Child as a Witness in Suits at Law; VIII. The Development of the Child-Criminal; IX. The Child's Development as a Factor in producing the Genius or the Defective; X. Institutional Life in the Development of the Child; XI. The Profession of Maternity. Social Phases of Education IN THE SCHOOL AND THE HOME BY SAMUEL T. DUTTON London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY THERE was a time when education was regarded as a matter belonging exclusively to the school. Its problems were not seriously studied except by teachers. To-day there is no subject that excites greater public interest. Fathers and mothers are anxious to understand the aims and methods of the school; they are also interested to know how other educational forces in the community may be utilised in such a manner as to insure the best growth and development of their children. The chapters of this volume are selected from lectures given during the past two years at Harvard, Chicago, and Boston Universities, and from papers read before the American Social Science and the National Educational Associations. The point of view is in all cases social rather than scholastic, and the ideas emphasised are as worthy of consideration by parents as by teachers. No apology is offered for putting these papers into permanent form, although the venture would not have been made except at the urgent request of educational friends whose judgment is respected. It is only as questions are stated from different points of view, and as large masses of experience are accumulated, that there is hope of avoiding mistakes and of making educational practice conform to the dictates of science and common sense. CONTENTS The Social Aspects of the Home and the School; The Modern School, and what it owes to Froebel and Herbart; The School and the Child; Phases of the Course of Study; Educational Progress; The Relation of Education to Vocation; The Relation of the Church to the School; Education as a Cure for Crime; The Correlation of Educational Forces in the Community; The Brookline Education Society and its Work. PRESS OPINIONS Speaker." Readers of the book will feel sincerely grateful to the colleagues and friends who induced Mr. Dutton to publish it. A volume of singular charm. .. Mr. Dutton's achievement is one of great and permanent value. The parson or the teacher who can rise from the perusal of it without feeling that he has gained in breadth of view and grasp of principle is probably a pitiful creature. " School World."It provides a new atmosphere, as it were, for the British schoolmaster and schoolmistress; familiar problems are presented in new ways, and the American experiences described will go a long way towards expanding the all too prevalent narrowness among the teachers of our schools." Scotsman.- "While specially applicable to the educational establishment of the United States, they are so sensible and suggestive as to be well worthy of consideration by educationists elsewhere, and will interest any thoughtful teacher who reads them." |