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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

education is largely wrong. Emerson assures us that education should be "as broad as man," and he had already defined each individual as a "new classification." "Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way?" he exclaims. "You are trying to make that man another you. One 's enough." ¹ You cannot tell what a boy or girl most needs any Inure than you can decide that he shall be a lawyer or a doctor. "That which a man can do best none but his Maker can teach him," again says our great seer.

Having said so much against high and preparatory schools, it is time to admit that they are not all as objectionable as the foregoing aspersions would suggest. I know a teacher in a high school in one of our largest cities who is triumphing over the pressure system by explicitly showing his boys that to pass the entrance examinations is a secondary end, the first being the attainment of power, the cultivation of concentration and self-control. He emphasises these higher ideals by placing "ideal suggestions" upon the blackboard for his pupils to copy, by explaining the functions of the subconscious mind, and by personal talks with each boy on purity and self-mastery. The results are excellent. There are probably many teachers who are winning the same triumph. There is surely every reason to encourage this reform within conventional ranks, every reason why the teacher should be spiritually as well as intellectually equipped.

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