| FACING
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| A Test with Books Open. (Fairhope, Ala.) | Frontispiece |
| (1) Nature would Have Children Be Children before They Are Men. | 8 |
| (2) Teach the Child What Is of Use to Him as a Child. (Teachers’ College, N.Y. City) | 8 |
| To Learn to Think, We must Exercise Our Limbs. (Francis Parker School, Chicago) | 15 |
| (1) An Hour a Day Spent in the “Gym.” | 30 |
| (2) The Gully Is a Favorite Textbook. (Fairhope, Ala.) | 30 |
| Games often Require Muscular Skill, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. (University School, Columbia, Mo.) | 45 |
| (1) The Basis of the Year’s Work. (Indianapolis) | 58 |
| (2) Printing Teaches English. (Francis Parker School, Chicago) | 58 |
| Songs and Games Help Arithmetic. (Public School 45, Indianapolis) | 75 |
| The Pupils Build the School-Houses. (Interlaken School, Ind.) | 87 |
| Real Gardens for City Nature Study. (Public School 45, Indianapolis) | 97 |
| (1) Making a Town, instead of Doing Gymnastic Exercises. (Teachers’ College Playground, N.Y. City) | 109 |
| (2) Gymnasium Dances in Sewing-Class Costumes. (Howland School, Chicago) | 109 |
| Constructing in Miniature the Things They See around Them. (Play School, New York City) | 118 |
| Using the Child’s Dramatic Instinct to Teach History. (Cottage School, Riverside, Ill.) | 129 |
| Learning to Live through Situations That Are Typical of Social Life. (Teachers’ College, N.Y. City) | 140 |
| Solving Problems in School as They would Have to be Met out of School. (Francis Parker School, Chicago) | 159 |
| The Pupil Stays in the Same Building from Day Nursery Through High School. (Gary, Ind.) | 177 |
| Special Teachers for Special Subjects from the Very Beginning. (Gary, Ind.) | 193 |
| (1) The Boys Like Cooking More than the Girls Do. | 218 |
| (2) Mending Their Own Shoes, to Learn Cobbling. (Public School 26, Indianapolis) | 218 |
| Learning Moulding, and Manufacturing School Equipment. (Gary, Ind.) | 255 |
| Real Work in a Real Shop Begins in the Fifth Grade. (Gary, Ind.) | 269 |
| (1) Children Are Interested in the Things They Need to Know About. (Gary, Ind.) | 284 |
| (2) Making Their Own Clothes in Sewing Class. (Gary, Ind.) | 284 |
| Training the Hand, Eye, and Brain by Doing Useful Work. (Gary, Ind.) | 297 |
