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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

acquire concentration, must learn to think, become quickened to the love of truth for its own sake, beauty for art's sake, and utility as a prime essential in all training. Every person needs the discipline of a thorough system, and there is a strong argument for postponing the experimental years until "the age of reason."

Because of the value of school and college training as contrasted with personal experiment, the educational world is likely to be divided for many generations to come between two sharply contrasted methods of culture teaching by authority, graduated system, precise and thorough as that of Germany; and teaching by the elective plan, by self-development and experiment. A philosopher would probably say that the wisest method is a synthesis of these extremes. But adjustment between extremes is precisely the problem which the practical worker finds most difficult. As long as authorities differ, the controversy concerning this adjustment is sure to present ever fresh problems, and both extremes are likely to become more extreme before a satisfactory solution is reached.

Meanwhile the decision in a particular case is likely to depend chiefly upon inheritance, environment, and the accidents of fortune. Yet as every life is a fresh experiment, seemingly accidental instances may throw great light on the total problem. My own education has been almost wholly of an unconventional sort, and the doctrine of this book is necessarily, perhaps helpfully, coloured by it. I

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