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n of directed study will help the pupils to help themselves. Good teaching demands it. The harness is often heavier than the load. Failures are inevitable. The plan of study direction must be varied according to the varying needs of pupils, subjects, and schools. The poorer pupils are aided most. They are made even more reliant on themselves. The reduction of failures tends to balance any added expense. Records adequate and complete should be a part of the business and educational equipment of every school. The exposition and use of these facts as recorded will then give direction to school progress, and dethrone the authority of assumption and opinion. REFERENCES: 54. Thorndike, E.L. _Individuality_, pp. 38, 51. 55. Neuman, H. _Moral Values in Secondary Education_, United States Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 51, 1917, pp. 18, 17. 56. Maxwell, W.H. _A Quarter Century of Public School Development_, p. 89. 57. Thorndike, E.L. _The Elimination of Pupils from School_, U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 4, 1907, p. 10. 58. Farrington, F.E. _French Secondary Schools_, p. 124. 59. Inglis, A. _Principles of Secondary Education_, p. 669. 60. Committee of N.E.A. _Vocational Secondary Education_, U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin No. 21, 1916, p. 58. 61. Breslich, E.R. _Supervised Study as Supplementary Instruction, Thirteenth Yearbook_, p. 43. 62. Minnick, J.H. "The Supervised Study of Mathematics," _School Review_, 21-670. 63. Wiener, W. "Home Study Reform," _School Review_, 20-526. 64. Colvin, S.S. _An Introduction to High School Teaching_, p. 366. 65. Brown, J.S. _School and Home Education_, February, 1915, p. 207. 66. Reavis, W.C. "Supervised Study," in Parker's _Methods of Teaching in the High School_, p. 398. VITA FRANCIS PAUL OBRIEN was born at Overton, Pa., November 12, 1885. He received his early education in the village school of Overton, Pa., and graduated from the high school at Wilkesbarre, Pa., in 1904. He was a student at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1908. He was a graduate student at Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1915 to 1918, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in Education in 1916. During 1908-09 he was high school teacher of science and history at South River, N.J.; 1909-10, principal of the high school, and 1910-15 superintendent of schools at South River, N.J. He received honors and h
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