Chapter I

A CRITICAL CONSIDERATION OF THE NEW PEDAGOGY IN ITS RELATION TO MODERN SCIENCE

Influence of Modern Science upon Pedagogy 1

Italy's part in the development of Scientific Pedagogy 4

Difference between scientific technique and the scientific
spirit 7

Direction of the preparation should be toward the spirit
rather than toward the mechanism 9

The master to study man in the awakening of his intellectual
life 12

Attitude of the teacher in the light of another example 13

The school must permit the free natural manifestations of the
child if in the school Scientific Pedagogy is to be born 15

Stationary desks and chairs proof that the principle of
slavery still informs the school 16

Conquest of liberty, what the school needs 19

What may happen to the spirit 20

Prizes and punishments, the bench of the soul 21

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner
force 24

CHAPTER II

HISTORY OF METHODS

Necessity of establishing the method peculiar to Scientific
Pedagogy 28

Origin of educational system in use in the "Children's
Houses" 31

Practical application of the methods of Itard and Séguin in
the Orthophrenic School at Rome 32

Origin of the methods for the education of deficients 33

Application of the methods in Germany and France 35

Séguin's first didactic material was spiritual 37

Methods for deficients applied to the education of normal
children 42

Social and pedagogic importance of the "Children's Houses" 44