On the Firing Line in Education

by Adoniram Judson Ladd

CONTENTS

	CHAPTER	PAGE
	Introduction—Have the Schools Been Discredited by the Revelations of the War	[13]
I.	On the Firing Line in Education	[37]
	Social Betterment, the Dominant Motive in Education	[38]
	Child Study	[43]
	Physical Education	[50]
	The Educational Survey	[51]
	Vocational Guidance	[53]
	The Educational Psychologist	[56]
II.	The Relation of the State University to the High Schools of the State	[63]
	The Elementary School	[65]
	The High School	[67]
	The State University	[75]
III.	The University and the Teacher	[89]
	The Kind of Teachers the University Should Employ	[91]
	The University Teacher in his Classroom	[94]
	The University's Attitude Toward the Preparation of Teachers for the Schools of the State	[105]
IV.	The Eye Problem in the Schools	[115]
V.	The Home, the Church, and the School	[133]
	The Home	[134]
	The Church	[141]
	The School	[150]
VI.	Noblesse Oblige	[163]
VII.	Improvements in Our Public Schools	[185]
VIII.	Local Winter Sports	[203]
IX.	The Function of Teachers College	[217]
X.	Credit for Quality in Secondary and Higher Education	[243]
	Index	[261]

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INTRODUCTION