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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

There are few books which are of real value. The majority are like treatises on pedagogy—cut up, subdivided, and abounding in italicised definitions without number, but lacking that living touch which makes them truly human. The great resource is to start with natural law as a basis and develop your entire system from that. And the two great secrets of success in the application of natural principles are, first, to control yourself; and, second, to guide the child by continually interesting its attention; for attention is the very life of concentration and will: "breaking the child's will is a cruel blunder."

Teachers usually complain that they have no time to apply these higher ideals, since they are at the mercy of the pressure system. But the teacher may at least adopt the evolutionary point of view in regard to the disagreeable stages of childhood, and approach the pupils in a spirit of optimism. Even if every minute be in subjection to the pressure system, the teacher may call the subconscious mind into play by impressing high ideals upon it a moment or two before losing consciousness in sleep. It is economy to do this. The subconscious mind will in due time affect daily conduct, and surely no teacher is so busy that a moment may not be taken to lower the voice, to speak more gently, and become more moderate. Then, to her surprise, the teacher will find that she does not "get so tired," that she has more time. Thus equanimity will accomplish what school reform cannot. Our nervous, hurrying life is the real cause of the pressure system. When

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