Part IIT of this book is a collection of essays on educational topies; the rst being "A Criticism of Proebelian Pedagogy." in' which the author wells on three tendencies in the Frocbel system: the contempt, for direct instruction, the neglect 10 form the habit of attention, and the identi Aeation of the happiness of the moment with the happiness of the whole life; but as this essay is dated 1901, its criticisms are, though Interesting, not now altogether pertinent, In "Mental Training and the World Crisis" (1924), Wallas pleads tuter alla for the stimulation' of original thought, and for" this are required, between periods of severe mental concentration, periods of mental rest.
'The American system of taking as a pecesary, part of a. teacher'
{or your subconasigus ab well Your conscious mind.
'A counsel. of perfection; one, incidentally, adopted out here, through the very wise system of home leave.
From what has been said, itis clear that this is a book for those interested in the by-ways rather than the highways of tite recent past; and fully to understand the present, the more one Knows of the past the better-r.car.
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