The Discovery Of The Child

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Introduction to the Third Italian Edition . v

Introduction to the Present Edition . , xiii

I. Critical Considerations . . .1

II. The History of Methods . . .21

III. Inaugural Address .... 42"

IV. Teaching Methods Used in Children's Houses . 67
V. Nature in Education . . . ,95

VI. Education in Movement . . . 109-

VIL The Material for Development . . .143

VIII. The Exercises . . . .151

IX. Visual and Auditory Distinctions . . 170'

X. Generalizations on the Education of the Senses . 187

XI. The Teacher . . . .195
XIL The Technique of Lessons . . ,200-

XIII. Observations on Prejudices . . .212

XIV. Elevation . . . , .224

XV. Written Language . . - .237

XVI. The Mechanism of Writing . . , 257

XVII. Reading.....287

XVIII. The Speech of the Child ; . . 301
XIX. The Teaching of Numeration and the Approach

to Arithmetic . . . .326

XX. Later Developments in Arithmetic . , 340

XXI. Drawing and Representative Art . , 344

XXIL The Beginning of Musical Art . . . 350'