and Girls--The One Object of Educational Activity 42

CHAPTER III. FITTING SCHOOLS TO CHILDREN 44

I. Child Growth--A Primary Factor in Child Life 44

II. Children Need Health First 45

III. Play as a Means to Growth 46

IV. Some Things Which a Child Must Learn 48

V. What Schools Must Provide to Meet Child Needs 51

VI. The Educational Work of the Small Town 52

VII. The Educational Problems of an Industrial Community 55

VIII. Beginning With Child Needs 56

CHAPTER IV. PROGRESSIVE NOTES IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 58

I. The Kindergarten 58

II. Translating the Three R's 59

III. Playing at Mathematics 60

IV. A Model English Lesson 61

V. An Original Fairy Story 65

VI. The Crow and the Scarecrow 67

VII. School and Home 68

VIII. Breaking New Ground 71

IX. The School and the Community 72

X. New Keys for Old Locks 74

XI. School and Shop 76

XII. Half a Chance to Study 79

XIII. Thwarting Satan in the Summer Time 80

XIV. Sending the Whole Child to School 81

XV. Smashing the School Machine 84

XVI. All Hands Around for an Elementary School 86

XVII. From a Blazed Trail to a Paved Highway 90

CHAPTER V. KEEPING THE HIGH SCHOOL IN STEP WITH LIFE 92

I. The Responsibility of the High School 92

II. An Experiment in Futures 92

III. The Success Habit 95

IV. The Help-out Spirit 97

V. Joining Hands With the Elementary Schools 98

VI. The Abolition of "Mass Play"