Coleridge’s ‘captain,’ 110;
behaviour of, 113;
correlation of, 114;
instruct conscience and stimulate will, 130;
choice between, 134;
growth of, 297

Ignorance, dangers of, 1, 5, 279, 299, 310, 314;
is not incapacity, 63;
our national stumbling-block, 239;
only one cure for, 239

Imagination, 25, 259;
present in children, 11, 18, 36, 41, 50;
present in infant, 37;
may be stored with evil images, 55

Incuria of children, 52, 254, 292

India, 267

influence, 83

information v. knowledge, 26, 184, 303, 321

initiative, 25

insincerity an outcome of ignorance, 326

integrity, 61

intellect not a class prerogative, 12;
enthroned in every child, 50

intellectual conversion, xxv, xxvi

intellectual appetite, 56

intelligence not a matter of inheritance and environment, 12

introspection, 66

irresponsibility characterises our generation, 313

Isaiah, 106, 309, 318

Italian, teaching of, 213


James, Professor William, 113, 114

Japan, 133;
revolution in, 306

Jewish nation, history of, 162

Joan and Peter, by H. G. Wells, 95, 252, 266

Johnson, Dr., 143, 160;
on questions, 257

Jordan, xxvi

judgment, power of, 259;
present in children, 9, 18

justice, 60-62


Kant, 306

Keble, 167

Kidd, Benjamin, 69

King Lear, 45, 242

Kipling, Rudyard, 89, 135, 181

Kirschensteiner, Dr. and Munich Schools, 280

knowledge, call of, xxv;
appetite for, xxx, 10, 11, 14, 18, 20, 29, 44, 53, 57, 77, 89, 90, 92, 117, 124, 253, 255, 290, 302;
must be vital, xxx, 39, 44, 105, 154;
quantity and variety of, xxx, 11, 14, 19, 116, 123, 154, 157, 253, 256, 257, 263, 288, 289, 290;
must be literary in form, xxx, 13, 15, 18, 29, 30, 51, 91, 109, 111, 154, 160, 172, 218, 248, 256, 260, 290;
assimilation of, xxx, 12, 14, 16, 18, 155, 240, 292;
the sole concern of education, 2, 12, 93;
the necessary food of mind, 2, 18, 75, 88, 239, 256, 258;
consecutive, 7, 158, 172, 244, 261, 267;
accurate, 8;
what is? 12, 239, 254, 303;
a basis of common, for all classes, 20, 78, 264, 293, 298, 299;
not sensation, 26;
of good and evil, 46;
love of, sufficient stimulus for work, 58, 79, 98;
of God, 64, 65, 158-169, 239, 246, 254, 272, 287, 289, 310, 315, 338;
formative influence of, 65;
brings freedom, 71, 73;
depreciation of, 76, 301, 316;
is delectable, 89;
creates bracing atmosphere, 97;
v. teaching, 118;
is virtue, 127, 235;
of man, 169-218, 239, 254, 289, 315;
of the Universe, 218-234, 239, 254, 289, 316;
relativity of, and mind, 237, 240, 324;
stops friction, 238;
substitutes for, 302;
‘The source of pleasure,’ 302;
Matthew Arnold on, 239;
received with attention, and fixed by narration, 259;
not same as academic success, 266;
unifying effect of, 267;
‘Meet for the people,’ 292;
a distinction between, and scholarship, 305;
‘Letters,’ the content of, 308;
not a store but a state, 309;
of the Life, the Truth, the Way, 317;
the basis of a nation’s strength, 321;
v. information, 303, 321;
mediæval conception of, 321;
all, is sacred, 324;
a great unity, 324;
and ‘learning,’ 325;
exalteth a nation, 342

Kultur, 286


Lamb, Charles, 16, 258, 260

languages, the teaching of, 209-213, 254, 276

Latin, the teaching of, 94, 124, 155, 213

League of Nations, 169

learning, by rote, 257;
and knowledge, 325;
labour of, not decreased by narrowing curriculum, 158

Lecky, Mr., on utilitarian theory, 280

Lehrbuch zur Psychologie, 113

Leibnitz, 110, 113

Leonardo da Vinci, 54

lessons, dull routine, 44

‘Letters,’ knowledge and virtue, 307;
the vehicle of knowledge, 308;
a knowledge of, necessary, 313;
make a universal appeal, 333;
the staple of education, 334

Liberal Education, A: Practice, by A. C. Drury, 157

life, not enough for our living, 335

listening, habit of, 244

Lister, 19, 318

literary form, children must have, xxx, 15, 18, 29, 30, 51, 91, 109, 111, 154, 160, 172, 218, 248, 256, 260, 290;
children educated out of, 13

Literature, the teaching of, 42, 43, 52, 62, 151, 157, 180-185, 254;
natural aptitude for, 91;
illustrates history, 176, 177, 180, 184, 269, 274;
a living power, 185;
and history, sole key to unintelligible world, 338;
reveals deepest things, 338

Locke, 4, 156

Logos, 330

Louis XI, 132

Louis XIV, 92

Louisa, Queen of Prussia, 306

Lugard, Lady, 314

Lysander, 109


Macbeth, 140

magnanimity, 89, 248, 268

magnetism, personal, 13, 48, 49

Magnus, Sir Philip, 280

maps, 224

Marconi, 236

Maria Theresa, 311

marks, 7, 11, 28, 52, 247, 302;
unnecessary, 45

Marx, Karl, 144

Masefield, John, on vitality of mind, 277

mathematics, the teaching of, 7, 59, 148, 151, 152, 153, 155, 230-233, 254, 256, 264, 296;
appeal to mind, 51;
beauty and truth of, 230, 334;
undue importance of, 231;
not a royal road to learning, 231;
to be studied for their own sake, 232;
success should not depend on, 232;
depend upon the teacher, 233;
badly taught, 233

matter, not the foundation of all being, 4;
and mind, 5

Memmi, Simone, 284, 322, 323

Memory, 14, 16;
mind v. word, 173, 263;
knowledge, mental not verbal, 258, 303

mental food and work not synonymous terms, 281

Method, Coleridge’s, 106, 107

method, special points of P.N.E.U.;
children do the work, 6, 19, 192, 216, 241;
teachers help, 6, 19, 241;
single reading, 6, 15, 171, 241, 258, 261, 263, 267, 291, 293, 304;
narration, 6, 15, 18, 30, 45, 65, 155, 163, 165, 172, 180, 182, 190, 191, 211, 241, 261, 272, 276, 291;
no revision, 6, 9, 15, 171, 241, 245, 262;
no special selections, 7, 244;
many books, 7, 12, 15, 30, 59, 76, 241, 267, 268, 271, 303;
children’s delight in books, 7, 19, 30, 45;
attention secured by books, 7, 13, 30, 45, 276;
consecutive knowledge, 7, 158, 172, 244, 261, 267;
takes less time, 9, 245;
no preparation, 9, 158, 245;
children occupied with things as well as books, 31;
short hours, 158;
examinations, 158, 167, 168, 171, 178, 195-209, 241-243, 262, 263, 270, 272;
children form a good style, 194;
power of dealing with names, 181, 262, 264, 294-296;
suitable for large numbers, 247;
success depends on principles, 270

‘Micawber, Mr.,’ 231

‘Midas,’ 267

Milton, 110, 124, 132, 159, 188, 274;
on ideal of education, 249, 268;
Areopagitica, 188

Mind, habits of, xxix, 53, 100;
feeds on ideas, xxix, 2, 10, 15, 18, 20, 25, 39, 40, 105, 111, 117, 256, 257;
not a receptacle, xxx, 112;
a spiritual organism, xxx, 24, 38, 117;
has appetite, xxx, 10, 20, 39, 57, 89, 281;
must be fed, xxx, 5, 10, 18, 20, 24, 25, 41, 71, 105, 111, 117, 154, 236, 239, 246, 259, 263, 281, 288;
can deal with knowledge, xxx, 10, 18, 41, 72, 117;
not made up of faculties, 2, 17;
in education, 2, 6, 253;
thought alone appeals to, 2, 12, 15;
is one, 5, 41;
is spiritual, 5, 38;
action of, stimulated by desires, 11, 13, 88;
nature of, 20;
house of, 24;
must have labour of digestion, 26, 237;
the instrument of education, 36;
spiritual, v. physical brain, 38, 100, 260, 330;
amazing potentialities of, 38;
‘the unconscious,’ 38, 66, 130;
tendency to ignore, 38;
the means of living, 42;
good and evil tendencies of, 46, 49, 52;
not a chartered libertine, 49;
use of term, 66;
always conscious, 66;
heaven of, 71;
not sustained by physical or emotional activity, 72, 289;
must not be intruded upon, 130;
deals with intellectual matter without aids, 172;
potency not property characteristic of, 237;
laws of, 245, 246, 290;
behaviour of, 253;
duly fed, its activities take care of themselves, 289;
vast educability of, 289;
receives knowledge to grow, 237;
must know, 237;
wonder of, 239;
and knowledge, 240, 324;
functions for its own nourishment, 246;
of children not immature, 246;
stability of, 248;
benefits by occasional gymnastics, 255;
a crucible, cannot distil from sawdust, 257;
a deceiver ever, 257;
outer court of, 257;