Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Contents -- PART I THE MAKING AND GIVING OF LESSONS -- I TYPES OF LESSON -- 1. Classification -- 2. The Lesson to Give Knowledge -- 3. The Lesson to Give Skill -- 4. The Appreciation Lesson -- 5. The Practice Lesson -- II NOTES OF LESSONS -- III THE ART OF GIVING A LESSON -- IV SOME TEACHING DEVICES -- 1. Story-Telling and Narration -- 2. Description -- 3. Comparison and Illustration -- 4. Questioning -- PART II PROBLEMS OF THE CLASS-ROOM -- V PERSONAL RELATIONS IN THE CLASS ROOM -- 1. Relation between Class and Teacher -- 2. Relation between Individual Children and Teacher -- VI CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR GOOD WORK -- 1. The Class-Room -- 2. School Clothes -- 3. Class Apparatus -- 4. Individual Apparatus -- VII ORGANIZATION OF WORK -- 1. Class Teaching -- 2. Sectional or Group Work -- 3. Directed Individual Work -- 4. Learning by Doing -- 5. A Summary of Conclusion -- PART III PROBLEMS OF THE SCHOOL -- VIII THE RELATION OF THE SCHOOL TO THE COMMUNITY -- 1. Classification of School -- 2. The Functions of the School -- 3. The Interrelation of Schools -- 4. The School as a Unit -- IX THE CURRICULUM -- 1. The Essentials of School Work -- 2. The Overcrowded Curriculum -- 3. A Simplified Curriculum for the Junior School -- X ORGANIZATION OF WORK -- 1. Syllabuses -- 2. The Time-Table -- 3. Examinations -- XI NOTES ON THE STATE SCHOOLS' FUNCTIONS -- 1. The Nursery School -- 2. The Primary School -- 3. Some Problems of the Modern Secondary School -- 4. Specialization in a Small School -- XII SOME PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN SECONDARY SCHOOL -- 1. The Type of School under Consideration -- 2. Suitable Courses in Arts and Crafts -- 3. Notes on the Teaching of Special Subjects -- EXERCISES -- AN EXERCISE IN SELF-CRITICISM -- INDEX