Chapter 1 Education as a Necessity of Life 1
Chapter 2 Education as a Social Function 10
Chapter 3 Education as Direction 23
Chapter 4 Education as Growth 40
Chapter 5 Preparation,Unfolding,and Formal Discipline 52
Chapter 6 Education as Conservative and Progressive 67
Chapter 7 The Democratic Conception in Education 78
Chapter 8 Aims in Education 97
Chapter 9 Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims 108
Chapter 10 Interest and Discipline 121
Chapter 11 Experience and Thinking 135
Chapter 12 Thinking in Educatio 148
Chapter 13 The Nature of Method 160
Chapter 14 The Nature of Subject Matter 176
Chapter 15 Play and Work in the Curriculum 189
Chapter 16 The Significance of Geography and History 201
Chapter 17 Science in the Course of Study 212
Chapter 18 Educational Values 224
Chapter 19 Labor and Leisure 242
Chapter 20 Intellectual and Practical Studies 253
Chapter 21 Physical and Social Studies:Naturalism and Humanism 268
Chapter 22 The Individual and the World 281
Chapter 23 Vocational Aspects of Education 296
Chapter 24 Philosophy of Education 310
Chapter 25 Theories of Knowledge 321
Chapter 26 Theories of Morals 333