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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

in close contact with the demands of practical existence.

Again, the technical knowledge thus gained is sure to be of value. If a boy is placed where he must keep accounts for a time, he learns arithmetic by using it, whereas he may have been mathematically dull in school. Type-setting is excellent training, of great value in many occupations in after life; of value, too, in the use of English. Proof-reading is better yet, since it is splendid training for the powers of observation; there is some opportunity for the exercise of literary taste; it teaches the art of punctuation, and is helpful in the choice and use of words. All branches of newspaper work are of great educational value. The mastery of stenography not only trains and perfects the memory, but makes one a good listener, and is an unsurpassed method for the training of the attention. Telegraphy is valuable, but is not equal in scope to stenography. One whose training has been almost wholly of the practical kind says that he gained more genuine mental discipline through the mastery of telegraphy and stenography than through all his years of schooling.

Professor Munsterberg argues against letting a boy do what he chooses. In practical life there are sure to be contingencies which counteract the elective system in a far better way than by any method of human devising. The compulsory breaking away from a favourite environment, because a boy's parents decide to move to another State, is an

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