Preface to the Home Education Series

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Part 1: Some Preliminary Considerations

Part 1 Chapter 1: A Method of Education

Part 1 Chapter 2: The Child's Estate

Part 1 Chapter 3: Offending the Children

Part 1 Chapter 4: Despising the Children

Part 1 Chapter 5: Hindering the Children

Part 1 Chapter 6: Conditions of Healthy Brain-Activity

Part 1 Chapter 7: 'The Reign of Law' in Education

Part 2 Chapter 1: A Growing Time

Part 2 Chapter 2: 'Sight-Seeing'

Part 2 Chapter 3: 'Picture-Painting'

Part 2 Chapter 4: Flowers and Trees

Part 2 Chapter 5: 'Living Creatures'

Part 2 Chapter 6: Field-Lore and Naturalists' Books

Part 2 Chapter 7: The Child gets Knowledge by Means of His Senses

Part 2 Chapter 8: The Child Should be Made Familiar with Natural Objects

Part 2 Chapter 9: Out-of-Door Geography

Part 2 Chapter 10: The Child and Mother Nature

Part 2 Chapter 11: Out-of-Door Games

Part 2 Chapter 12: Walks in Bad Weather

Part 2 Chapter 13: 'Red Indian' Life

Part 2 Chapter 14: The Children Require Country Air

Part 3 Chapter 1: Education Based Upon Natural Law

Part 3 Chapter 2: Children Have no Self-Compelling Power

Part 3 Chapter 3: What is 'Nature'

Part 3 Chapter 4: Habit May Supplant 'Nature'

Part 3 Chapter 5: The Laying Down of Lines of Habit

Part 3 Chapter 6: The Physiology of Habit

Part 3 Chapter 7: The Forming of a Habit---'Shut the Door After You'

Part 3 Chapter 8: Infant 'Habits'

Part 3 Chapter 9: Physical Exercises

Part 4: Some Habits of Mind---Some Moral Habits

Part 4 Chapter 1: The Habit of Attention

Part 4 Chapter 2: The Habits of Application, Etc.

Part 4 Chapter 3: The Habit of Thinking

Part 4 Chapter 4: The Habit of Imagining

Part 4 Chapter 5: The Habit of Remembering

Part 4 Chapter 6: The Habit of Perfect Execution

Part 4 Chapter 7: Some Moral Habits

Part 4 Chapter 8: Truthfulness, Etc.

Part 5 Chapter 1: The Matter and Method of Lessons

Part 5 Chapter 2: The Kindergarten as a Place of Education

Part 5 Chapter 3: Further Considerations of the Kindergarten

Part 5 Chapter 4: Reading

Part 5 Chapter 5: The First Reading Lesson

Part 5 Chapter 6: Reading by Sight and by Sound

Part 5 Chapter 7: Recitation

Part 5 Chapter 8: Reading for Older Children

Part 5 Chapter 9: The Art of Narrating

Part 5 Chapter 10: Writing

Part 5 Chapter 11: Transcription

Part 5 Chapter 12: Spelling and Dictation

Part 5 Chapter 13: Composition

Part 5 Chapter 14: Bible Lessons

Part 5 Chapter 15: Arithmetic

Part 5 Chapter 16: Natural Philosophy

Part 5 Chapter 17: Geography

Part 5 Chapter 18: History

Part 5 Chapter 19: Grammar

Part 5 Chapter 20: French

Part 5 Chapter 21: Pictorial Art, Etc.

Part 6 Chapter 1: The Will

Part 6 Chapter 2: The Conscience

Part 6 Chapter 3: The Divine Life in the Child