Produced by Suzanne Lybarger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) ONTARIO NORMAL SCHOOL MANUALS SCIENCE OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZED BY THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION TORONTO THE RYERSON PRESS COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1915, BY THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION FOR ONTARIO Second Printing, 1919. Third Printing, 1923. CONTENTS PART I THE PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION CHAPTER I PAGE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF EDUCATION 1 Conditions of Growth and Development 2 Worth in Human Life 4 Factors in Social Efficiency 6 CHAPTER II FORMS OF REACTION 9 Instinctive Reaction 9 Habitual Reaction 10 Conscious Reaction 11 Factors in process 12 Experience 13 Relative value of experiences 15 Influence of Conscious Reaction 17 CHAPTER III PROCESS OF EDUCATION 19 Conscious Adjustment 19 Education as Adjustment 19 Education as Control of Adjustment 22 Requirements of the Instructor 24 CHAPTER IV THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM 25 Purposes of Curriculum 25 Dangers in Use of Curriculum 28 CHAPTER V EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 34 The School 34 Other Educative Agents 35 The church 35 The home 36 The vocation 36 Other institutions 36 CHAPTER VI THE PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL 38 Civic Views 38 Individualistic Views 40 The Eclectic View 43 CHAPTER VII DIVISIONS OF EDUCATIONAL STUDY 46 Control of Experience 46 The Instructor's Problems 48 General method 49 Special methods 49 School management 50 History of education 50 PART II METHODOLOGY CHAPTER VIII GENERAL METHOD 52 Subdivisions of Method 52 Method and Mind 53 CHAPTER IX