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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

educated express their unwillingness to exchange their years of general reading and business experience for the best training a preparatory school could give.

The moral is easy. Raise the intermediate schools to a higher standard to meet the demands of those who are not fit subjects for the pressure system. Teach fewer subjects and teach them well. Prepare your scholars for a life of individual thought, and do not permit the demands of college entrance examinations to defeat the purposes of education.

Of terrors in the educational world entrance examinations are the worst, and it is evident that something is wrong. Is it not unfair, for example, for the professor who is a genius in mathematics to select exceedingly difficult problems by which to test a boy's ability, then grant him barely fifty-five minutes in which to try to solve them? It is surely no demerit to fail, and it is no wonder that so many students enter college conditioned in mathematics. Examinations, after all, are the chief sources of the pressure system. What a relief it is to enter college where, in so many courses nowadays, one may substitute theses.

Emerson's advice to a college boy was: "Room alone and keep a journal." It is the spontaneous results of education which really show the progress a student has made. Every man who is alive to his opportunities is sure to give some sign of growth, and if he be not alive coercion will not make him so. But if Emerson was right, conventional

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