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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

a trade. Among the boys of this type whom I have had opportunity to observe, those have thrived best who, never permitted to be idle while unable to attend school, have been taught a trade.

Every thoughtful person knows that to learn one thing well is more profitable than to acquire a smattering of many arts and sciences. Everywhere the individual leads to the universal, and when a man has mastered an art or science, he is prepared to begin in earnest to realise the scientific man's advice: "Know everything about something; know something about everything." The chief fault of conventional education is that it teaches so many subjects in so short a time. But just that attainment which high and preparatory schools usually do not give, namely, concentration, the power of individual thought, is the freest gift to all who learn a trade or some practical occupation which they enjoy.

In the first place, the mastering of a trade which must become remunerative as soon as possible, compels one to be practical. In the case of an introspective, idealistic, or speculative temperament, this is of great moment; it lays the foundation for the whole of life of that balancing tendency which keeps the mind from flying aloft to visionary heights. This gift from practical life is worth more to a mind of the above-mentioned type than all the classic instruction in the world. A mind of this type is apt to take itself too seriously, to overestimate the value of its own opinions, if it be not than early brought

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