Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life

            Summary. It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being.

            Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function

            Summary. The development within the young of the attitudes

            Chapter Three: Education as Direction

            Summary. The natural or native impulses of the young do not agree

            Chapter Four: Education as Growth

            Summary. Power to grow depends upon need for others and plasticity.

            Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline

            Summary. The conception that the result of the educative process

            Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive

            Summary. Education may be conceived either retrospectively

            Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education

            Summary. Since education is a social process, and there are many kinds

            Chapter Eight: Aims in Education

            Summary. An aim denotes the result of any natural process

            Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims

            Summary. General or comprehensive aims are points of view for surveying

            Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline

            Summary. Interest and discipline are correlative aspects of activity

            Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking

            Summary. In determining the place of thinking

            Chapter Twelve: Thinking in Education

            Summary. Processes of instruction are unified in the degree

            Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method

            Summary. Method is a statement of the way the subject matter

            Chapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject Matter

            Summary. The subject matter of education consists primarily

            Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum

            Summary. In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject

            Chapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and History

            Summary. It is the nature of an experience to have implications

            Chapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of Study

            Summary. Science represents the fruition of the cognitive factors

            Chapter Eighteen: Educational Values

            Summary. Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value

            Chapter Nineteen: Labor and Leisure

            Summary. Of the segregations of educational values

            Chapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical Studies

            Summary. The Greeks were induced to philosophize

            Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism

            Summary. The philosophic dualism between man and nature is reflected

            Chapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the World

            Summary. True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip

            Chapter Twenty-Three: Vocational Aspects of Education

            Summary. A vocation signifies any form of continuous activity

            Chapter Twenty-four: Philosophy of Education

            Summary. After a review designed to bring out the philosophic issues

            Chapter Twenty-five: Theories of Knowledge

            Summary. Such social divisions as interfere with free and full

            Chapter Twenty-six: Theories of Morals

            Summary. The most important problem of moral education in the school