Perfection in art dependent on approximation to truth Exercise of the intelligence aids imagination Imagination in children. Immature and therefore concerned with unrealities Should be helped to overcome immaturity of thought False methods develop _credulity_, akin to insanity Period of credulity in the child prolonged for the amusement of the adult "Living among real possessions" the cure for illusions Fable and religion. Religion not the product of fantasy Fable in schools does not prepare for religious teaching The education of the imagination in schools for older children. Environment and method oppressive "Composition" introduced to foster imagination How composition is "taught" Imagination cannot be forced The moral question. Contributions of positive science to morality Science raises society to level of Christian standards Parents' failure to teach sex morality Probable effects of experimental psychology in field of morals Experimental psychology should be directed to the schools Progress of medicine and its relation to new psychology Childish naughtiness a parental misconception Infant life different from the adult Hindering the child's development a moral question for the adult Need of the child "to touch and to act" How the adult prevents him from learning by doing Conceptions of good and bad conduct in the school Mutual aid a high crime in the school Surveillance for vicious habits originating in the school Developing the "social sentiment" in the school "A moral with every lesson" the teacher's aim Injurious system of prizes and punishments the school's mainstay The fallacy of "emulation" Necessity of reforming the school Good conduct dependent on satisfaction of intellectual needs Mere sensory education inadequate Love, the preservative force of life Christianity teaches necessity of mutual love The education of the moral sense. Moral education must have basis of feeling Adult the stimulus by which child's feeling is exercised How and when the adult should offer affection The essence of moral education. Importance of perfecting spiritual sensibility Necessity of properly organized environment Helping the child distinguish between right and wrong "Internal sense" of right and wrong Moral conscience capable of development Our insensibility. Virtuous person and criminal not detected by contact The War as an example of moral insensibility Insensibility distinguished from death of the soul Spiritually, man must either ascend or die Morality and religion. Conversion, the sudden establishing of moral order The spirit enslaved by sentiments hostile to love The religious sentiment in children. Crises of conscience and spontaneous religious feeling Some original observations by Dr. Montessori * * * * * SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY IN EDUCATION I