Part I Some Preliminary Considerations
1 A Method of Education pp.1-10
3 Offending the Children pp.13-17
4 Despising the Children pp.17-19
5 Hindering the Children pp.19-20
6 Conditions of Healthy Brain-Activity pp.20-37
7 ‘The Reign of Law’ in Education pp.37-41
Part II Out-of-Door Life for the Children
6 Field-Lore and Naturalists’ Books pp.62-65
7 The Child gets Knowledge by Means of his Senses pp.65-69
8 The Child Should be Made Familiar with Natural Objects pp.69-72
9 Out-of-Door Geography pp.72-78
10 The Child and Mother-Nature pp.78-80
11 Out-of-Door Games, etc. pp.80-85
12 Walks in Bad Weather pp.85-88
14 The Children Require Country Air pp.92-95
Part III Habit is Ten Natures
1 Education Based upon Natural Law pp.96-97
2 The Children have no Self-Compelling Power pp.98-100
3 What is ‘Nature’? pp.100-104
4 Habit may Supplant ‘Nature’ pp.105-107
5 The Laying Down of Lines of Habit pp.107-111
6 The Physiology of Habit pp.111-118
7 The Forming of a Habit—’Shut the Door After You’ pp.119-124
9 Physical Exercises pp.132-134
Part IV Some Habits of the Mind—Some Moral Habits
1 The Habit of Attention pp.137-149
2 The Habits of Application, Etc. pp.149-150
3 The Habit of Thinking pp.150-151
4 The Habit of Imagining pp.151-154
5 The Habit of Remembering pp.154-159
6 The Habit of Perfect Execution pp.159-160
7 Some Moral Habits—Obedience pp.160-164
Part V Lessons as Instruments of Education
1 The Matter and Method of Lessons pp.169-178
2 The Kindergarten as a Place of Education pp.178-181
3 Further Consideration of the Kindergarten 182-199
5 The First Reading Lesson pp.207-214
6 Reading by Sight and by Sound pp.214-222
8 Reading for Older Children pp.226-231
9 The Art of Narrating pp.231-233
12 Spelling and Dictation pp.240-243
16 Natural Philosophy pp.264-271
Part VI The Will—The Conscience—
The Divine Life in the Child
3 The Divine Life in the Child pp.341-352