103, 333

Departmental Committee on English, 269

desires, which stimulate mind, 11, 88;
cater for spiritual sustenance, 11;
atrophy of, 89;
v. other desires, 247;
must be used wisely, 56;
right and wrong, 84

Dewey, Professor, 280

Dickens, 81, 111

discipline, xxix, xxx;
secured by knowledge-hunger, 11;
education a, 99-104

discrimination, 259

diversion, xxxi

Divine Spirit, xxxi;
Divine sanctions, 20

docility, 68;
universal, 69;
v. subservience, 71;
implies equality, 71

Doll’s House, The (Ibsen), 327

drawing, 217, 329

Drighlington Girls’ School, xxv, 236


economics, 73, 313

education;
a liberal, xxv, 8, 21, 78, 92, 127, 235, 250, 261, 264, 266, 271, 294, 296;
gives stability of mind, 248;
makes for sound judgment, 56;
three instruments of, xxix, 94;
and atmosphere, xxix, 94-99;
and discipline of habit, xxix, xxx, 99-104;
is a life, xxix, 104-111;
is the Science of Relations, xxx, 31, 154;
little dependent on heredity and environment, xxxi;
errors in, 2, 5, 24, 26, 38, 41, 44, 53, 58, 59, 75-77, 82-89, 91, 94-96, 98, 105, 110, 114-122, 129, 155, 178, 190, 237, 246, 254, 304;
a philosophy of, 2, 18, 67;
and training, 3, 5, 6, 20, 39, 48, 147, 287;
must nourish mind, 6, 72, 105, 111, 253, 255, 260;
discoveries in, 9, 62, 68, 104, 255, 256, 290;
and the Desires, 11, 58, 84-90;
Knowledge the concern of, 2, 93, 266;
is of the spirit, 12, 26, 30, 38, 39, 125;
attention, the prime agent of, 16, 76, 247;
lacks exact application of principles, 19;
“new,” 27;
distinguished from psychology, sociology, pathology, 27;
in want of a unifying theory, 32;
does not produce mind, 36;
and use of leisure, 42, 79, 121;
the work of, 46, 60, 248, 281, 287;
the handmaid of Religion, 46, 79, 248;
business of, always with us, 54;
of the feelings, 59;
of the soul, 63;
drowned by talk, 65;
and capacity of child, 66;
a going forth of the mind, 66, 137;
popular, 76;
a free, 85, 146;
definite progress a condition of, 91;
not mainly gymnastic in function, 108, 236;
in Denmark and Scandinavia, 123, 125, 283-287, 291, 306;
in Germany, 123, 125, 279, 280, 306;
utilitarian, 125, 156, 180, 224, 279-283, 302;
co-existent with moral bankruptcy, 281;
in France, 125;
in Switzerland, 125;
Secondary, 127, 250-278;
less liberty than in Primary, 155;
character, the aim of, 129, 287;
must fortify will, 131;
title deeds of, 156;
beginning of definite, 159;
a science of proportion, 231-233;
a social lever, 245;
solves problems of decent living, 245;
a venture of faith, 245;
part and parcel of Religion, 246;
v. Civilisation, 248;
a common, 249, 264, 296;
a democratic, 265;
not for the best children only, 254;
hindered by materialism, 259;
an exclusive, our great achievement, 265;
overlapping in, 265;
a literary, open to all, 268;
humanistic, affects conduct, 293;
an early, from great books, the true foundation of knowledge, 308;
of the race, 324;
new systems of, 325;
result of forty years’, 342;
should be universal boon like air, 343;
as exemplified by two Public School boys, 343-348

Education Act, 121, 122

Eliot, George, 61

efficiency, 125

Elementary Schools, 326;
P.N.E.U. propaganda on behalf of, xxvii;
P.U.S. methods in, xxxi, 13, 14, 39, 44, 50, 268;
books in, 53;
concentration schemes in, 115;
A Liberal Education in, 235-249;
gain by no marks, no places, 247

Emile, by J. J. Rousseau, 338

Encyclopædia Britannica, 5, 17

‘English,’ 86, 147, 209-211

English Literature, 124, 298

environment, xxix, 94-99;
educability of children little dependent on, xxxi, 155;
not way to mind, 38;
v. atmosphere, 96;
children not products of, 238

Erasmus, 187, 340

erudition, 310

ethics, 14, 254, 274

Ethics of the Dust, by John Ruskin, 223

Eton, 252, 308, 348

Eucken, Professor, 249, 296

Euclid, 152, 233

eugenics, 313

eurhythmics, 251, 255

examinations, 231, 256, 277, 291;
University entrance, 155, 233;
and scholarships, 155;
P.U.S., 158, 167, 168, 171, 178, 220, 221, 241-243, 262, 270, 272, 293-296;
should set less exacting standard, 256;
tests which shall safeguard Letters, 312;
papers and children’s answers, 195-209

Ezekiel, 55


faculties, 11, 17, 259, 263, 266;
out-of-date, 2, 230, 255;
Büchner on, 4;
none to develop, 255, 276

fallacious arguments, 326

Fichte, 279, 306

Fisher, Mr. H. A. L., 53, 122, 126

Fouillée, M., 110

Fox, Charles, 29;
on poetry, 317

Four Georges, The, by Thackeray, 171

France, Anatole, 317

France, education in, 125

Francis, St., 60

Franklin, the Hon. Mrs., xxviii

Frederick the Great, 3

French, the teaching of, 211-213

French Revolution, The, 4, 92

Fuller, Thomas, xxvii


Gaddi, Taddeo, 322

games, 188;
should be joyous relaxation rather than stern necessity, 267

Genesis, 309

geography, teaching of, 14, 30, 40, 59, 177, 220, 221, 224-230;
dangers of ‘scientific,’ 41;
suffers from utilitarian spirit, 224;
and travel, 226;
the romance of, 227;
not generalisations, 227;
inferential method of teaching, 227-228;
panoramic method, 227-228;
literary character of, 228

geology, teaching of, 221

geometry, the teaching of, 233

German, the teaching of, 213

Germany, moral breakdown of, 3, 123;
influence of Darwin on, 3, 4;
utilitarianism in, 6, 123, 125, 280, 286, 306;
cult of æstheticism in, 95;
philosophers of, 3, 4;
school curriculum in, 6;
efficiency in, 282, 283

Gibbon, 124

Gladstone, W. E., 281

Gloucester teachers’ P.U.S. conference, 183

Gloucestershire, 51, 90

God, knowledge of, 64, 65, 158-169, 239, 246, 254, 287, 289, 310, 315;
the principal knowledge, 272, 338

‘Godfrey Bertram,’ 122

Goethe, 40, 160-162, 273, 299

Gordon, General, 141

Gordon Riots, 130

Gorky, Maxim, 62

Gospels, The, 165, 166, 169

grammar, the teaching of, 7, 10, 141, 151, 152, 209-211, 269

Greek, 124, 155, 254, 308

Greeks and the power of words, 316

Gregory, Sir Richard, on science teaching, 222

Grundtvig, 125, 283, 284, 291

Guy Mannering, 122, 331

gymnastics, intellectual and physical v. knowledge, 236


Habit, xxix, 53, 99-104, 128, 147;
is inevitable, 101;
a bad master, 101;
act repeated becomes, 102;
religious, 103

Haeckel, Ernst, 4

Hague, The, 285

Haldane, Lord, 26

Hall, Professor Stanley, 280

Hamlet, 179, 183

handicrafts, xxx, 31, 73, 154, 217, 234, 251, 255, 328

Heart of Midlothian, The, 331

Henry VIII, 170, 173

Herbart, 112, 113, 114, 117

Herbartian doctrine, xxx, 113, 117

Herbert, George, 64

heredity, educability of children little dependent on, xxxi, 155

High School girl, the, 326

history, 14, 30, 42, 50, 59, 62, 73, 77, 151, 157, 169-180, 254, 267;
a vital part of education, 169, 273;
church, 169;
English, 170-175, 176, 177;
French, 175, 176, 177;
ancient, 175, 176, 177, 274;
Indian, 176, 267;
European, 176, 177;
British Empire, 176;
and literature, 176, 177, 180, 184, 269, 274;
and citizenship, 185, 274;
geographical aspects of, 177;
as a background for thought, 178;
time given to, 170;
necessary for a sane life, 178;
gives weight to decision, consideration to action, stability to conduct, 179;
charts, by Miss Beale, 177

Home Education Series, 6, 27

Homer, 182, 190

home work, 9

hope, we want, 335

Horace, 78, 264

horde, spirit of, a dangerous tendency, 300

Household, Mr. H. W., 90, 212

House of Education, The, 15, 212, 213, 276

“howlers,” 158, 256

Humanism, 240;
for the people at large, 235

humanistic training surest basis for business capacity, 285

‘Humanities,’ The, 14, 157, 235, 239, 260, 297, 305;
in English, 298

human nature, prefers natural to spiritual law, 3;
a composite whole, 156;
possibilities of, infinite and various, 156;
an ordered presentation of the powers of, 189;
has not failed, 335

Huxley on the teaching of science, 218

hygiene, 220


Ideas, xxix, xxx, 290;
mind feeds on, xxx, 10, 20, 25, 39, 40, 105, 109, 110, 117, 256;
informing, xxx, 26, 154;
initial, xxxi;
Platonic, 10, 108;
that influence life, 25;
give birth to acts, 80, 102, 303;
potency of, 105;
rise and progress of, 106, 107;